"No Boot Disk" on new iMac with external optical drive

So I am experiencing a problem similar to what some people have had, but I have the brand new iMac which does not come with a cd drive.
I have a fusion drive in the iMac.
I downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate from my University software store, which gave me a .img file. I burned this file to disk in order to make the boot drive.
I am using an amazon basics DVD optical drive which connects to my computer via USB.
Upon boot into windows, it does not recognize the dvd in the drive as bootable, and says "No Bootable Disk Found, Press Any Key". Of course, I have a bluetooth keyboard and cannot press any key because there are currently no drivers.
So, any ideas on why it won't recognize my boot dvd?

It was just a simple case of removing the verbose boot settings which I found a script for after searching on Google.

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