WIN7 host, FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted

[peelpub94]

I have tried different combinations of using my Host Drive to boot from e:\ (dvdrom) which contains the winxp bootable media which also contains the autorun.inf
-In this case, I power on the new VM and I can hear it accessing my host dvdrom drive, it reads it but errors with the above.

I've also tried just pointing directly to the ISO to boot from as well and I get an immediate error.

Here's a screen shot of my storage settings:

http://gyazo.com/7f1bda0619aa79ddccd8152456691cee.png

TIA!

[peelpub94]

What other info do I need to provide to receive a response?

[Perryg]

Can we assume that this is the official Windows install CD?
If so then the media must be damaged.

[scottgus1]

Check your VM's boot order. Is the CD drive listed before the hard disk

[Sasquatch]

Check your VM's boot order. Is the CD drive listed before the hard disk

Shouldn't matter, if the VDI is empty, it will just skip the HDD boot and continue to check the other boot devices.


The only thing I can say about this, is that the ISO isn't bootable.

[poakeyes]

Hello i am also having this same problem, but my disc works when i make a fresh install. When i attempt to use it in VB it gives me this message, please help me.

[mpack]

Make sure you have the host drive selected in the VM.

[poakeyes]

so it finally accepted the disk, but it will not start up now.

it gives me a black screen saying

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cuase blah blah blah


status 0xc0000225

This is the first time its started up, i havn't done anything so i don't understand what kind of hardware change has happened.

[Sasquatch]

Either it's a configuration problem (e.g. you enabled the ICH chipset setting, set it back to PIIX) or you use an OEM disc which is build for your bare metal hardware and will fail when it's tried to install on other hardware.