Won't Boot/Read from my optical drive.

[Aristio]

I'm trying to boot a fresh Windows 8 from my internal optical drive and it won't read the disc for whatever reason. I get the:

"Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key."

I then open the drive, put in the disc, it makes some noise, and it gives me the error message again. Any advice on what to do?

I went to the BIOS and set my priority boot device as the Optical Drive also.

[Sonomaa]

did you burn the disk or is it a retail one?

[Aristio]

retail with a fresh SSD

[Sonomaa]

if you have another computer you can check the disk with, thats your best shot, otherwise there is a chance you got bad media, unlikely, but still possible

[Sonomaa]

also when booting most computers you can press f12 for a menu that will ask you what device you want to boot from, that should be able to force it to boot from the disk

[Aristio]

I tried forcefully booting it from the BIOS as I got the UEFI bios.

[xopher]

change your hard drive operation to ahci

[Aristio]

It defaults to that setting already. I got a new MB with a new SSD and trying to install a new OS.

[xopher]

I'm assuming you can see the SSD in the bios?

[Aristio]

Yes, I can see both the CD drive and the SSD

[xopher]

I would plug the SSD into another computer as a slave and see if you can format it to NTFS from there.

[Aristio]

It was the optical drive. I got a friend to lend me his really quick and it booted up just fine.