Trying to boot from... FAILED! Win 7 install on 10.6.6

Anyone know how to solve this problem when trying to install Windows 7:

Trying to boot from SATA drive 1... failed
Trying to boot from SATA optical drive 2... SATA optical drive 2 failed.
Trying to boot from Floppy drive... failed
Trying to boot from networking...

I am running a new MacBook Pro 10.6.6 with Sandy Bridge.

Thanks!

Brian

 

HELP - Same error

I have tried two macs - (iMac and MBA) as well as different OS -(Win 7 an XP) Stuck in the same boat.

 

I finally found out that this is a result of a bad copy of Windows7.

Either it is incomplete, or your ISO image is corrupt. If you get a fresh copy of Win7 and try again, it will work for you. The best alternative is to install from your Windows 7 original disk.

 

I had the same problem. Checked if I could quickly replace my internal optical drive but that would be a hassle, bought a simple external optical drive (Samsung) and after the install would initially not see that disk either, on a new try Windows7 started to install... I had even created a disk image of the W7 install disk but that proved unnecessary.

 

What if the Win7 copy you have is a crack version?

 

At least my version was/is bona fide, bought in a store. My internal drive has trouble reading disks and since I very rarely use cd/dvd disks at all I practically forgot about it until I got this install disk. But luckily the external CD/DVD player helped.

 

Found a fix for this

Trying to upgrade, or rather replace my Windows XP 32 bit in Parallels 6 with Windows 7 64 bit.

Could not get Windows XP to see the contents of the install DVD, instead it showed it as a Network Drive, but I couldn't set that up as a boot device.

In the VM configuration menu I saw that I had 2 different DVD drives, Matshita DVD-R UJ-898 and also UJ-895. I changed the selected model to UJ-898 and almost immediately after saving the settings a not popped up to tell me that the installer I was using was not compatible with the XP 32 bit OS.

I changed the boot order to start with DVD. Now it said attempting to boot from DVD, press any key to boot from DVD, but it would then go on to boot into XP anyway.

I saw in one of the much earlier posts that someone recommended also changing the bios. I hit the F2 key on restart and it went into the very limited BIOS (I think that's what it was) that gave me 2 options: Windows Setup and Windows memory configuration. When I chose Windows Setup it booted from the DVD and installed Windows 7 (or rather it started to, it hasn't finished yet).

In case anyone was wondering, you can not select Upgrade when installing Windows 7 64 bit over Windows XP 32 bit, it wont work because the installer isn't recognized by XP.