Your statement: "We tested it at work: only machines younger than a year
could
boot from a DVD-Drive" is absolutely ***FALSE***.
Lord, I have worked on literally hundreds of computers 4,5 even 6 years old
that can boot from a CD or DVD disk easily.
I will bet that those at work who tried to boot from the DVD had actually
installed the DVD disk into a CD drive.
Else they do not know what they are doing and are incapable of altering the
computer bios to allow booting from an optical disk!
--
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uBex46P%23JHA.5040@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hello again!
> Quote:
>> Not really a Vista related question as any computer capable of running
>> Vista will be capable of booting from DVD.
>
> Not quite! We tested it at work: only machines younger than a year could
> boot from a DVD-Drive.
>
> The older computers are not that old: about 3 to 4 years, with CPUs faster
> than 3 GHz. But all of them failed to boot from an Install-DVD-ROM.
> But you could install Vista as a second operation system.
>
> But we did not try out yet a new DVD-Drive in an older computer, so we
> would have found out ourselves. That is why we asked to find out without
> testing it.
>
> Greetings Manfred
>
>
>
> Quote:
>> If the machine is so old that the BIOS doesn't support booting from DVD,
>> it isn't going to run Vista anyway.
>>
>>
>> "Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:ee2svpN%23JHA.1376@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Why do older computers not boot from a DVD-Drive?
>>>
>>> Is it the DVD-Drive or the mainboard (with its BIOS or the onboard
>>> controller)?
>>>
>>> Thanks Manfred
>>