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I have recently made my own PC for this first time but I don't really know what I'm doing. I've put a burned version of windows 8.1 into the disk drive and set it to boot from disk drive however it's come up saying "reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". I suspect that this is a problem with the windows 8.1 on the disk or parts of the PC being unable to run alongside windows 8.1 but I'm not sure. Please help.

 
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did you mount it, or just drag and drop the iso onto the drive?

try using Rufus to make a bootable USB stick instead of a DVD

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what do you mean by mount it? and I was getting the same problem with the usb

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Use this to make a bootable USB drive with an iso...

 

or

 

You can try getting something to burn the iso image to a DVD... Click and drag doesn't work that simply...

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That's what I did for the usb.

I brought the disk with windows already on there.

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That's what I did for the usb.

I brought the disk with windows already on there.

Do you have secure boot enabled?

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Secure boot state is enabled yes

try turning that off and booting

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Please help this guy... I've got nothing more to suggest...

 

Thanks...

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Could I get one of the linustechtips show hosts in here please?

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wont allow me its a faded color and cant be selected

can you send me a picture of the options you have in the bios

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Firstly, I have had an similar issue to this. When you burnt the CD what write speed did you do it at ? Also what software did you burn the Win 8.1 on ? Did you use an ISO or a copy of an original CD ?.

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What may have happened is that image while burning became corrupt. I have seen this happen quite a lot. Best thing to do if you got another computer to use or laptop is too extract the image from the CD and use an usb to import the image (ISO) onto it. Then try boot from USB. If that dont work that there is an issue with hardware.

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