Issue booting from a SATA optical drive

[entropy1982]

Hey guys,

I have an asus p6t with only a SATA optical drive. I have 12 gigs of RAM so I will be using a 64 bit OS (this is probably irrelevant.) I am sure this is a common problem but I have no floppy and my OS boot dvd is not loading. Can someone give me some suggestions... I have read about people talking about "slipstreaming" and emulating a floppy using my flash drive (this would be great since making another boot disc would be a pain since I need to go to a buddys house to make another one)

Anyway, any help with this problem would be great

Thank you in advance

 

[starams5]

Did your installation DVD ever boot or did you just burn this copy. Are you running XP, Vista, or Win7. If it has never booted before and is non-bootable we can make it bootable.