Dual booting impossible; can't boot from DVD-R

DahMainahGaimah · Mar 27, 2015

For some reason my computer absolutely refuses to boot from a disk. I edit the boot hierarchy in BIOS, but it still boots up in windows. Please help, I'm trying to install Ubuntu here!

tman1 · Mar 27, 2015

Disable secure boot in the BIOS.

DahMainahGaimah · Mar 27, 2015

Oh, god. Get this - there IS no option for secure boot! Also, now I get to the Windows splash screen and it gets a BSoD! Oh my god, it's ruined. I just ruined a $2500 computer doing something that's EASY!

DahMainahGaimah · Mar 27, 2015

Please respond! If I don't fix this, my parents will kill me!

RaDiKaL_ · Mar 27, 2015

try booting in safe mode, if its successful test your DVD in windows, perhaps its a bad copy, or maybe your DVD optical drive is faulty.

DahMainahGaimah · Mar 27, 2015

Holy crap, that was close, okay, crisis averted. Turns out that I was reading the HDDs wrong. Hooooly crap, I'm probably gonna have a heart attack down the line because of this. Okay, back to the original problem.

DahMainahGaimah · Mar 27, 2015

So, what happens is I re-arrange the boot hierarchy so that the disc drive has priority over everything else, then I exit out of BIOS. However, the computer behaves like nothing has happened and boots into Windows 7 normally. I know that nothing went wrong during the partitioning process, and the disc was burned fine, so it has to be a BIOS problem.

DahMainahGaimah · Mar 28, 2015

Never mind, I'll just figure it out myself... in a couple months. When I actually understand how a computer works.

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