CD-ROM Boot Priority

[KornKnut]

Recently I acquired an old computer from a friend, but he needed the hard drive because it had photos on it, so I went out and bought a new hard drive to install a copy of windows 10 (disc). The computer is a Studio XPS, which had originally come with windows XP. I can only access bios currently and every time I try to boot from the disc, it says CD-ROM boot priority ... no medium reboot and select proper boot device. I read other forums saying to switch priority but it hasn't helped at all.

 

[KornKnut]

Btw the motherboard is a X501H

 

[Jasjar]

Try switching the cd-rom to sata 0 if it isn't there already. Also try unplugging the hard disk and see if you can boot off the cd then.

 

[tekno2go]

In the bios I gather you set the cd-rom as first boot? Save and exit?
Could be the windows 10 cd is a dvd format and your cd rom drive is not dvd supported?
If that's the case you could try an external usb dvd rom or install a new internal dvd rom or make a bootable windows 10 usb drive (4gb or greater) by downloading the windows media creation tool from microsoft.

 

[KornKnut]

The optical drive says it supports DVD and cd

 

[KornKnut]

Unplugged the hard disk and tried booting straight from the cd... no luck yet