booting from a CD

ncJohn

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My wife has a new Gateway laptop with win8 pre-installed. This is my first experience with Windows 8. I've been emailing with the Gateway (Acer) support people about the problem of how to boot from a CD. Of course, every time I write, a different person responds, so there's no continuity, and I'm also pretty sure that some of them really don't know what they're doing. Regardless, here's what I've gotten from them and what I've found from experience:

In order to boot into Windows 8, the BIOS has to be set to boot into UEFI. But in UEFI, you can't boot from a CD/DVD, regardless, no matter what, it aint happening. (One of the Acer people told me to change the boot order so that DVD is first, above Windows boot menu, but I did that and it didn't change anything.)

In order to boot from a CD/DVD you have to change the BIOS from UEFI to "legacy bios." Once you do that, you can boot from a CD but you can't run Windows8. If you don't have a bootable CD/DVD in the drive, the computer won't boot at all, it just keeps saying to put a bootable disk in the drive.

Bottom line, it doesn't matter how you set the boot order. If you choose UEFI in BIOS, you can run Win8 but can't boot from an optical disk. If you choose "legacy BIOS", you can boot from an optical disk but can't run Win8.

Does anyone know how to change this?
Thanks
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Optiplex 9010 MT
    CPU
    Core i7 3770
    Motherboard
    Dell Inc. 0M9KCM (CPU 1)
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS PB238 (1920x1080@60Hz), Viewsonic VP2365WB (1080x1920@60Hz)
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
To boot a 3rd party bootable CD/DVD Partitioning,Backup & Cloning software, which fully supports Windows 8, uEFI, GPT & Secure Boot.
Which is signed by Microsoft.


Boot the CD/DVD from the One Time Boot Menu,
Windows 8 Downgrade-005 SB.PNG
Check your manual for the F? to use.

than boot the CD/DVD in uEFI mode.
Windows 8 Downgrade-006 SB for posting.PNG
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    ME, XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Notebooks x 3

    Desktops x 5

    Towers x 4
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying there's software that lets you do this?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Optiplex 9010 MT
    CPU
    Core i7 3770
    Motherboard
    Dell Inc. 0M9KCM (CPU 1)
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS PB238 (1920x1080@60Hz), Viewsonic VP2365WB (1080x1920@60Hz)
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
ncJohn said:
My wife has a new Gateway laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed. This is my first experience with Windows 8. I've been emailing with the Gateway (Acer) support people about the problem of how to boot from a CD

theog said:
To boot a 3rd party bootable CD/DVD Partitioning,Backup & Cloning software, which fully supports Windows 8, uEFI, GPT & Secure Boot.
Which is signed by Microsoft.

ncJohn said:
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying there's software that lets you do this?


Do you have Windows 8 3rd party bootable CD/DVD software?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    ME, XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Notebooks x 3

    Desktops x 5

    Towers x 4
The particular CD I'm talking about at this time is a bootable recovery disk I made using AISBackup. It's for use if the HD becomes corrupted or unbootable for some reason. I was trying to test it to be sure it would boot; that's how I discovered how difficult it is to boot this computer from a CD.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Optiplex 9010 MT
    CPU
    Core i7 3770
    Motherboard
    Dell Inc. 0M9KCM (CPU 1)
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ASUS PB238 (1920x1080@60Hz), Viewsonic VP2365WB (1080x1920@60Hz)
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
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