Satellite L870D - can't boot from CD or USB

It's my girlfriends new Satellite L870D laptop, I am trying to backup the hard drive with Paragon's Image Backup for Windows 8; I created a bootable CD and a USB drive version from the Paragon software but I can't boot to either on this laptop. Both times I result in a "Media Check: Fail" message.
However the Paragon bootable CD and USB drive boots fine on another system. And the optical drive on the Satellite L870D works fine within Windows 8.
I also checked the BIOS setting for Boot Speed which is set to Normal.
What am I missing?
TIA.

Hiya pal,
I had the same problem and fixed it.
Hold F2 on startup and in the BIOS settings disable secure boot.
Now, disable EUFI boot and change to ASCI in settings. Now save and restart your system.
It should now be able to read anything in the USB/CD drive.
Thank me later :)

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