DVD drive USB won't boot

[Blinkyboy1822004]

Hello, first time posting something on here, but I have gotten a lot of answers and help from this community from other posts, because of this I come to you all for help. With the recent update to windows 10, my drives suddenly stopped working and got corrupted. I decided to format them and wipe the drives clean of the OS. When loading the DVD for windows 7 through the DVD drive to boot, I get a message "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key" I have tried booting from DVD and also from a bootable USB but it won't boot from either. I tried changing the boot sequence so that it tries DVD drive first then USB and last the hard drive, and changed them to USB then DVD and HDD but still nothing boots. I tried removing the HDD and SSD but still no boot, stays on that screen. Any and all help would be appreciated. thank you!


Specs:
mobo: ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD
SSD: Intel 330 Series Maple Crest 120BG SATA 3
RAM: ADATA XPG gaming Series 4GB DDR3
CPU: AMD Anthlon II X4 635 Propus Quad-Core 2.9 GHz
Case: Cool Master RC-690-KKN1-GP Mid Tower Computer
Corsair TX series 650W Power supply

Not sure if I need more info than these specs, if so please ask and ill try to provide it.

 

[USAFRet]

How did you create your boot media, DVD and USB?
What tool did you use?

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

I tried two different ones, one was USB imgburn and powerISO for the DVD

 

[USAFRet]

I tried two different ones, one was USB imgburn and powerISO for the DVD

And the Windows 7 ISO came from where?

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

It was one that was given to me by a friend so I could upgrade to windows 10. that same ISO had been installed on this pc before and was working fine, but the files got corrupted after the attempt to upgrade to win 10

 

[USAFRet]

It sounds like something is wrong with your install media.
If it is a retail license, you can download a new ISO file and create a new install DVD.
Go here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7
It will ask for your license key.

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

the DVD boots in my laptop and my friends pc as well, we even tried his older windows XP boot to make sure it wasn't my DVD drive. The way he formatted those drives for me was using a DVD that had Linux on it.

 

[USAFRet]

the DVD boots in my laptop and my friends pc as well, we even tried his older windows XP boot to make sure it wasn't my DVD drive. The way he formatted those drives for me was using a DVD that had Linux on it.

How the drives are formatted has nothing to do with booting from the DVD. Especially if, as you said, you disconnected them.
Something else is going on.

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

well, I did all these steps I did separately trying to get it to boot, what I meant is the DVD is probably not the issue, sorry if I misspoke. I'm kind of desperate.

 

[USAFRet]

well, I did all these steps I did separately trying to get it to boot, what I meant is the DVD is probably not the issue, sorry if I misspoke. I'm kind of desperate.

So, reduce it down to the bare essentials:
Disconnect ALL other drives (i know you already did this)
Verify, by touch, that the DVD drive is actually properly connected, data and power.
Put the disk in, power up, see what happens.

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

I still receive the same message, "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key" what we(friend and I) thought it could be, was the ram sticks being in the wrong locations but, we have tried all slots but no to avail.

 

[USAFRet]

If USB, try all the USB slots.

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

no dice on the USB booting... I have no idea what else to try

 

[USAFRet]

no dice on the USB booting... I have no idea what else to try

I can't either.
The DVD or USB actually first in the BIOS boot order?

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

DVD then USB then HDD, tried the other way around too, USB then DVD then HDD, even deleted the HDD just to try it out.

 

[Blinkyboy1822004]

Still no solution through the tries, if there is anything else that can be though up i would appreciate it. Thank you.