Windows 10: Windows 10 ISO image burned to DVD won't boot

Hi all,

As per my title, when I burn the downloaded Windows 10 ISO to a DVD, it won't boot. It shows the blue squares but right about where the spinning circle would appear, the system reboots.

I have the Windows 10 Pro English x64 ISO (2 of them, actually). I downloaded them with the Media Creation Tool.

I have successfully installed the upgrade to Windows 10 (was 8.1 originally) so that's not the problem. I'm trying to create a bootable Windows 10 DVD for a later clean install or to boot into a 'Repair Windows' environment.

I originally had 3 downloads of the ISO thinking that the one before it may have been corrupt but I have evidently lost one. I still have two of them, like I said.

Here are the details of the 2 ISO images:

1st image:
File name: Windows_10_x64-01.iso:
File size in Windows 10 - 3,255,232 KB
File size reported with MD5/SHA-256 generator - 3,333,357,568 Bytes
MD5 - 1512A193E2CC66B1BF77D7EB61B04BED
SHA-256 - 5608001DCFF547163AEE1BAE17324635497A44452AAE4C9D3DEB30C922896BF9

2nd image:
File name: Windows_10_x64-02.iso:
File size in Windows 10 - 3,255,232 KB
File size reported with MD5/SHA-256 generator - 3,333,357,568 Bytes
MD5 - 635362D3FEE6222D5C2CBCB6110D831A
SHA-256 - 1110BD290E54BF4C6E414E28B26D03F01A8E621126F71399F69A0FB710AD967C

As you can see, the file sizes are exactly the same, reported with 2 different methods, but the MD5 and SHA-256 hash values are different.

Which one is the right one? Evidently neither one because they both act exactly alike when burned to a DVD. Like I mentioned, they will boot to where you see the blue squares then reboot about when the spinning circle should appear.

I have burned the images to DVDs 3 different ways, with the Media Creation Tool, with ImgBurn, and with the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool.

I have used 2 brands of DVDs.

I don't believe the DVD media or the 3 burning apps are the problem. I've made bootable Windows 8.1, Acronis True Image, and Windows 7 DVDs on the same media and with the various burning apps. Yes, I am burning an image and not just burning the files to a DVD.

Wasting DVDs trying to figure this out? About 8 so far.

Does anyone have the proper MD5/SHA-256 hash values for the 'good' Windows 10 ISO image?

I've Googled quite a bit and you would think the Microsoft page that hosts the file would list it, but it doesn't.

BTW, the file named Windows_10_x64-01.iso is the one I mounted and successfully installed the upgrade with.

Thank you for any assistance.



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I have a PC which uses windows 8.1 preinstalled. I used the windows media creation tool to upgrade to windows 10. Then, with win 10 installed, I then used the creation tool to download the windows 10 ISO image file (approx 3.5GB) so I could burn it to a
DVD to make a Windows 10 bootable recovery disc. The creation tool gave me the option to burn to disc, which when doing so opened up a box to burn to disc and verify after burning. Therefore, I used this option to burn the iso to disc, which occurred successfully.

However, there's now a problem in that the DVD/disc is not bootable. With the disc in the drive, I can go to the recovery centre, select advanced, and boot from DVD, and windows will restart and boot from the DVD no problem i.e. install windows 10 from the
disc (which I had to do over the last few days, so I know it works that way round). However, with the disc in the drive and booting from a previous shutdown (i.e. pc turned off for a while, then starting up at a later date), windows starts normally and completely
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I was told by someone that the problem may be how the disc was burned, in that I should have used a tool that specifically burns an iso image to make it bootable; apparently, the way it's burned at present could just be the same as burning e.g. a photo or
program to a disc. I didn't use a special tool, I just let the windows media creator open the burning software in windows 10 and used that method.

If I can't start windows, I would want this disc to install without having to start windows. Therefore, how can I burn the iso image file so I can make it a recovery disc able to install from booting up, without having to go through the recovery centre?

Regards