Can't boot to DVD. Goes straight to freeDOS

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Jun 15, 2016
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Hey everyone. I have a problem with installing Windows on my machine. I used to have dual boot win10 and linux but then I got a virus on win10 and I decided to reinstall it. I "refreshed" windows 10 by clearing all data from all drives. When it restarted it went to grub. I couldn't boot into win10 nor linux. I found the win 10 disc but it doesn't work so I'm trying windows 8.1. When I use win8 disc and select a boot option to boot from the disc it puts me into a freeDOS screen asking me to press enter within 5 seconds or the following boot option will be selected (which is the used to be C that had win10 on before the "refreshment" (no I can't boot from it either). However if I do press enter it brings me to freedos console. I tried reformatting C (using format c: /s) but and it did but it couldn't install sys files or something.
Anyways here's some screenshots to give you more insight: http://imgur.com/a/goCL2
I need to fix this ASAP cause I need to work on a paper due next week. I have to do a week of observations and I already skipped one because of this. Can't waste any more time. What can I do?
 
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Well, I managed to make a spare USB bootable using my other laptop and it worked! Sorry that you had to go through this only for me to find my own solution and I can't appreciate your help enough.
Thank you.

If I can recall just the disc and the hard drive. If I go to hard drive boot options (which is separate from disc options) there's another hard drive (I have two if them). But only those two are present in the main screen
 
Well, I managed to make a spare USB bootable using my other laptop and it worked! Sorry that you had to go through this only for me to find my own solution and I can't appreciate your help enough.
Thank you.

 
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My next suggestion would have been that your cd isn't actually bootable 😛

Glad you figured it out!