When i bought windows 7 the 64bit disk wouldn't work (32bit was fine) it just revved up then down continuously in the drive. So i downloaded an 'ahem' copy and then used the proper authentication code which i got with the purchased copy. Thought this was a fluke and i had got a faulty copy but just got home and exact same issue with the 64bit windows 8 (haven't tried the 32bit one yet). Never had issues with any other disks only ever 64bit windows OS disks. anyone know what this could be?
Is it the same optical drive? I recall back in Vista days, some optical drives had to get a firmware update.. or just changed, in order to recognize 64-bit install. Personally, I recommend to use a USB flash drive. It will be faster (assuming you have decent flash drive), and your BIOS/UEFI should see it as normal drive. I got Windows 8 installed in 6min using a USB flash drive.
sorry what i meant was the burned disks work fine. its JUST the official disks that i have issues with. i don't like using burned disks however as people may have put additional unwanted software onto them. i.e. spyware. and yes it is the same optical drive, i considered the possibility that it was faulty but then it reads EVERYTHING else perfectly well, i don't understand why a 64bit OS would be written so dramatically differently from a 32bit OS that it wouldn't even read it. that may be more a sign of my ignorance than of bad-logic though i agree with using a USB pen but i cant get the data off the disk to put onto the USB pen, and if i download the OS then I'm back to the same problem (i.e. possible questionable third party software)
Some optical drive are made crappy, where it assumes that you are using a 32-bit OS, and that all your content that put are 32-bit, so it only reads 32-bit chunks at a time and the CPU goes, when you have 64-bit content on the disk: "WTF?! It's part of an instruction?!.... Oh well I guess I can't read the disk"
