CDBOOT: Cant boot from CD - Code 5 (Windows 7)

Hey gang,
I been searching for the past 2 days for my answer but unable to find it. Maybe you guys can help me which is VERY VERY VERY important that I get Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro!
I have a Windows 7 ISO which I obtain leggaly. When I turn off my Mac and when it boots back up I keep getting:
CDBOOT: Cant boot from CD - Code 5
I have a "early" 2011 Macbook pro, I made 6 diffrent versions of the ISO (which none work), and Im stuck on what to do next.
I have tried to mount then burn, creat new ISO then burn, and I even tried to change the buring speed to x2. I even tried 3 diffrent types of media too...
I been using the Disc Utility which came with my Mac which is ran by Lion 10.7.2
Any ideas on what to do?

This may be the answer. https://discussions.apple.com/message/10499544#10499544
However, if that doesn't work, why bother with bootcamp? Use a virtual drive via Parallels or Fusion, and run both simultaneously. Rebooting is a pain.

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Hi,
I had the verry same problem and I did multiple things I thought that could fix this problem.
Point one, the burning speed has nothing to do with the quality of your boot disk, you only have to lower burning speed if your burning process fails. So remind this for future burning problems.
1: I did the Lion software update.
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This time it worked really fine. But I'm not shure wether it was the SU or the new .iso... I checked the SU summary for the lion system update, but there was nothing to find on a boot camp bug and since they've improved boot camp it should work better
I have a 27" imac with the 2TB drive and Solid state so I was thinking that maybe it depended on which fysical drive I made the firtual bootcamp drive. But I tested the new W7 Boot disk on both fysical drives and it worked on both.
UPDATE: I found the reason... I compared the two copies of windows 7 boot disks and the one that works had a different name... Your boot disk should be called "CD_ROM" if not, the bootsequence will not recognize your DVD as a CD which appears to be nescesary for the installation process.
Sorry for the incomplete english, I'm from Belgium.
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I try to install XP-SP1 on it, actually 98SE.
1/ When booting from ATAPI-CDROM, BIOS says: "cdboot : cannot boot from CD CODE 1" ... waits a moment, and continue normal boot on HD.
2/ Under 98SE, setup freezes !!! Just one time (among twenty tries!), I got the first wizard, which has freezed too when "Verfiying compatibility of your materiel" (french over-traduction because I use FR and leave in France).
In BIOS, antivirus and lock-protection are disabled.
In 98SE, I did desinstall anti-virus and fire-wall !!
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Hello, you can close the thread, as the problem is resolved (with the ORIGINAL CD, all goes fine!).
Thanks for your attention.
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Hey gang,
I been searching for the past 2 days for my answer but unable to find it. Maybe you guys can help me which is VERY VERY VERY important that I get Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro!
I have a Windows 7 ISO which I obtain leggaly. When I turn off my Mac and when it boots back up I keep getting:
CDBOOT: Cant boot from CD - Code 5
I have a "early" 2011 Macbook pro, I made 6 diffrent versions of the ISO (which none work), and Im stuck on what to do next.
I have tried to mount then burn, creat new ISO then burn, and I even tried to change the buring speed to x2. I even tried 3 diffrent types of media too...
I been using the Disc Utility which came with my Mac which is ran by Lion 10.7.2
Any ideas on what to do?

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