Installtion disc not recognizing

[Bennyquan]

I have an acer aspire one laptop with a brand new, completely clean hard drive that I want to install windows to. When I try to boot it up it says no boot device found.  No problem. I plug in my external disc drive with the windows 8.1 installation disc in it and it spins up and the activity LED turns on. However, when I boot up it still says no boot device found. When I go into the boot options (F12) the only options are the new hard drive (which is clean and obviously has no OS on it so we wont be able to boot from there), and a network boot option which I've never used before. There's no option for the external disc drive. I assume the disc drive needs drivers installed in order to work, but I obviously can't do that if I can get into any kind of OS. Will I have the same problem if I try to boot from a USB Flash Drive? Any suggestions?

[Naeaes]

It might be disabled in BIOS. Go take a look. Also it might just be that your BIOS simply doesn't support external ODD. You can always create a bootable USB thumb drive and use that. It'd be super weird if that wasn't supported.

[techguru]

17 minutes ago, Bennyquan said:

I have an acer aspire one laptop with a brand new, completely clean hard drive that I want to install windows to. When I try to boot it up it says no boot device found.  No problem. I plug in my external disc drive with the windows 8.1 installation disc in it and it spins up and the activity LED turns on. However, when I boot up it still says no boot device found. When I go into the boot options (F12) the only options are the new hard drive (which is clean and obviously has no OS on it so we wont be able to boot from there), and a network boot option which I've never used before. There's no option for the external disc drive. I assume the disc drive needs drivers installed in order to work, but I obviously can't do that if I can get into any kind of OS. Will I have the same problem if I try to boot from a USB Flash Drive? Any suggestions?

in the bios you will have an option

 

also..should install from usb stick...faster

[Bennyquan]

21 minutes ago, Naeaes said:

It might be disabled in BIOS. Go take a look. Also it might just be that your BIOS simply doesn't support external ODD. You can always create a bootable USB thumb drive and use that. It'd be super weird if that wasn't supported.

 

18 minutes ago, techguru said:

in the bios you will have an option

 

also..should install from usb stick...faster

awesome thanks for the help guys. Ill try a USB stick as soon as I get the chance.

[Bennyquan]

The USB install worked perfectly! My hypotheses turned out to be correct in that the External Optical Drive simply needed to have drivers installed. Thanks for the help guys!