Model: Macbook Pro (15-inch EARLY 2008)
So I got my laptop reformatted at the apple store. They even upgraded me to Snow Leopard for free and everything seems to be fine. However, I recently tried to boot camp it.. I selected the Boot Camp Assistance program and partitioned the drive. When it came time to start installation, I inserted a Windows 7 disk (that my friend had received burned from someone else and used it perfectly fine to upgrade his windows to windows 7). My laptop would just take the cd… churn a few times and make some noise like it was actually reading it.. and then spit it back out.
I got annoyed and figured this didn’t work.. so I got another friend to download windows 7 and burn it onto a cd for me. I tried this last night and with the same problems.. it’d take the cd.. make it sound like it was reading it a few times.. and then spit it back out. It never showed up on my laptop and I was never able to look through the files. Being annoyed.. I went downstairs and found an actual Windows XP cd. I popped that in and my computer didn’t even bother making any noise to indicate it was reading it and spit it back out almost a second later.
Is it my cd drive that’s f-ed up?? Or are the cds just not “burned correctly”. They could possibly be just windows 7 iso burned onto the cd and not mounted on?? This doesn't explain why the authentic Windows XP cd wouldn't read...
HELP PLEASE.
So I got my laptop reformatted at the apple store. They even upgraded me to Snow Leopard for free and everything seems to be fine. However, I recently tried to boot camp it.. I selected the Boot Camp Assistance program and partitioned the drive. When it came time to start installation, I inserted a Windows 7 disk (that my friend had received burned from someone else and used it perfectly fine to upgrade his windows to windows 7). My laptop would just take the cd… churn a few times and make some noise like it was actually reading it.. and then spit it back out.
I got annoyed and figured this didn’t work.. so I got another friend to download windows 7 and burn it onto a cd for me. I tried this last night and with the same problems.. it’d take the cd.. make it sound like it was reading it a few times.. and then spit it back out. It never showed up on my laptop and I was never able to look through the files. Being annoyed.. I went downstairs and found an actual Windows XP cd. I popped that in and my computer didn’t even bother making any noise to indicate it was reading it and spit it back out almost a second later.
Is it my cd drive that’s f-ed up?? Or are the cds just not “burned correctly”. They could possibly be just windows 7 iso burned onto the cd and not mounted on?? This doesn't explain why the authentic Windows XP cd wouldn't read...
HELP PLEASE.
