secure booting win7 machines..

Wirenut · 12-09-2012, 08:51 PM

Hello everyone I have an Asus laptop that won't run any cd i stick in the drive. I have gone to bios with f2 i have selected the cdrom with the esc function to select boot device. every time it just goes to windows. Then i search these forums and find some posts about secure boot with win7 win8 and that i can circumvent this but risk my windows partition booting.

so without completely stripping windows out and installing linux I cant run windows/linux distro on my i7 64bit machine.

gee thanks microsoft.

GlennsPref · 12-09-2012, 09:18 PM

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The key I use with GigaByte motherboards is F12. Gives me a top-down list of drives to boot from. (, before windows or grub systems boot.)

So, try a "bios boot menu(F12)" at start, with out going into the bios and changing things.

USB drives usually (in the old days) cause boot probs.

See how that goes.

Regards Glenn

Wirenut · 12-09-2012, 09:47 PM

Hi Glenn thanks for the response.

I think thats essentially what the "esc" bootmenu on my asus in question is but i'm gonna try f12, here's hoping

Wirenut

GlennsPref · 12-09-2012, 09:50 PM

Yeah, Laptops are different to larger boxes.

I left out the obvious queries, is the disk good, is the cdrom drive good, ....

TobiSGD · 12-09-2012, 10:28 PM

Windows 7 does not support Secure Boot, so if you are running Windows 7 on your laptop Secure Boot is definitely not the problem here.