Windows – VirtualBox: ‘Could not read from the boot medium’

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I have recently installed VirtualBox on my Mac and am trying to install Windows 7 on it. I have done this a couple times in the past alas it has not been for several years.

I was originally getting an error when booting my VB machine (although I forget what the error message was) which meant that I had to change the boot order so that Optical was at the top:

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Now however, I am getting the following error when booting:

Could not read from the boot medium! System halted

I had a look on YouTube and believe that I need to edit the following settings:

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However I'm not sure what settings to go for in terms of my machine.

Best Answer

Change SATA controller to IDE controller and right click on the IDE controller to get the option: add "optical drive" to pop up, select it & move to thw right to select the iso image.

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