Vista - Vista DVD won't boot

Hi everybody. I have found many similar threads but none of them seem to fit the situation exactly and none of the solutions have worked yet so here goes.

I just built a new computer and am trying to load and DVD OEM Vista ultimate x64 OS.

I have 4 SATA hard disks and 1 SATA Sony bdu-x10s blu-ray drive. I have configured the 4 HDDs in Bios for RAID0. I also set BIOS to boot from the Sony drive only.

When I put the Vista disk in and power on the computer I notice that it loads the HDDs very quickly and sits on the Sony for a long time ~30 seconds. then it checks the disk and says no bootable media found. I observed that if I remove the disk and power on the computer the Sony drive loads just as quickly as the HDDs (<1s).

First I checked the disk on a 32 bit laptop I have. it opens in windows fine (though throws an error that it can't install on this computer, because it's 32 bit). it also boots ok, again throwing the same error.

Then I checked the drive with a XP x32 disk, that boots and loads fine however I cannot install because I require the 3rd party RAID drivers which can only be installed with Floppy on XP and I have no floppy drive (I am currently experimenting with nLite to load the drivers on the XP ISO. No luck on my first shot but I'll keep trying)

Any ideas why the DVD won't boot? I have the latest driver for the BIOS on my Rampage II Extreme Motherboard (1406 bios version)

Thanks!

try a usb flash drive to load sata drivers. you may have to disable raid in the bios.

A firmware update for the DVD drive might help. See
http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/7187.

Can you test the BDU-X10S drive in another machine to confirm it is not
defective?

nLite should do the job for your laptop. You could also consider a USB
floppy drive e.g. http://sony.storagesupport.com/product/26 .



On 30/07/2009 05:50, whitik wrote:

I can use usb flash to load the drivers with Vista (execept the DVD won't load) but not with XP which can only use Floppy...

If i disable RAID then my drives won't be in a RAID0 array.... I want them in a RAID0 array...

I will check the firmware update for Sony, thanks. Can I update the firmware without an OS?

As I mentioned the Sony drive loads the XP cd just fine so I think it is ok. I suppose maybe the DVD laser could be defective, I will try to create another bootable DVD and see if it loads. I do not have another machine to put the Drive into

Thanks for the suggestions.

I checked the firmware update which was issued 05/28/2008, I just got my drive this week so I'm sure the firmware is up to date

I got a couple more vista disks from some friends and tried them, one didn't boot, the second did... so not sure why but it's working now.