Cannot boot upgrade CD

Hello everybody, this may come as a stupid question, but I'm really at nerve's end here. My computer went to hell a few days ago, and I had the 7 upgrade laying around, I just never actually used it. So, I burned the ISO and put it in. I tried a few times, but to no avail, my computer didn't boot it. I thought hmm, it must be my BIOS, I'll check to make sure the boot order is right. Everything was fine, so then I tried just straight booting from the boot menu. It skipped right over the boot and went to loading Vista. My computer is barely usable, I got a virus the other day acting as a fake anti-virus no idea how, but I just decided a fresh install would be lovely. As such, I cannot access any web browser. I am using Songbird, my media player to post this.

Thanks for your time,

Snadbad

I hope that you didn't make the error of copying the .iso to DVD, rather than using a utility to re-create the disk that the .iso is an image of. If so, you wouldn't be the first.

Sorry, I forgot to follow up on this. I tried the same DVD on another computer, and sure enough, it did load. I tried to put in a Windows XP DVD on this computer, and it sorta just sat there. However, it is notable to say that it does recognize the 7 DVD when I'm active in Vista. It see's the DVD, and then it sees all the files inside of it.

In Device Manager, 4 things are listed, although I only have one drive. However, when I go to burn, it always says Optiarc so I guess it's the: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A ATA Device.

Sorry, it was the Digital River upgrade program for students. It was 30$ and you downloaded a .exe that would unpack and it would create an ISO. However, this went awry, and so upon googling, I found out that everyone had the same problem. However, Digital River and Microsoft released an official ISO download, and so I simply used that. So yeah, I did have to burn it, however, the burn worked fine as my other PC booted it right up and I saw the Win 7 install screen and everything. Is my drive incompatible or something?

Yeah I guess I might try the USB method. I have another DVD drive in my other computer, right next to me, but that didn't pick it up. The other computer that did was a laptop


Is there like a firmware or something I can DL for it to pick it up? I really need to get this computer fixed. It's basically gone, <3 malware!