That is with the advent of UEFI many bootable DVDs no longer boot. You have to use a version of Linux/FreeBSD that boots on UEFI or change the BIOS to allow legacy booting.
So booting has nothing to do with Windows, everything to do with the machine and your selected OS.
I have a brand new note that won't let me boot from my optical drive. I have set it to boot in bios. When I go to chose an option to boot from dvd it won't recognize it. The problem is that I have no access to my notebook. I starts the screen, then a terminal opens to cmd.exe and then it takes me to choose an option. Since I can't do hardly anything without logging in I'm stuck. I must admit that I know next to nothing about windows since I use Linux and FreeBSD but I need this for my daughter. The only thing I downloaded was a driver from hp to get her printer working. Please help. I don't want to buy a new laptop.

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