Start up DVD not recognised by mountain lion

My start up DVD not recognised by mountain lion-how do I get around this for restoring from time machine?

It's not very clear: Are you trying to reinstall Mountain Lion from a DVD copy you made of it, for some reason? And if so, why would that help you restore from Time Machine? Please give more information. Properly, to either reinstall Mountain Lion, or to Restore it from Time Machine, you need to reboot while holding down the Command - R keys as mcsound above recommended, to boot into the Mountain Lion Recovery Partition to do either.

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I have a Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW which I wanted to set up as extended display for my new bought Macbook Air.
I am running the latest Mountain Lion OS including the last updates.
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If the system is from Dec. 2011 it either came with DVD discs to reinstall the original shipping version of OS X or it came with Lion preinstalled.
If Lion then you use the Online Internet Recovery system to reinstall Lion, No Password needed. To boot to the Online system at startup hold downn the Option/Alt + Command + r keys and hold them down until you see a globe on the screen. From the Mac OS X Utilities screen that comes up use Disk Utility to partition the drive as one partition, Formatted Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) with a Partition table of GUID (That is an option under the Options button). Then click the Apply button. Once that is done exit DU and select Reinstall Mac OS X.
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I had the similar issue. I did the following to recover my notes before the upgrade:
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/Users/<insert_your_home_directory>/Library/StickiesDatabase
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After you are able to see your notes in NV, it is up to you how to transfer them to Apple Notes. You could export as HTML/RTF etc or copy paste manually... I have decided to use NV from now on.
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http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59525/export-all-stickies-at-once-on-os -x-10-8

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Thanks for your reply Eric
Can't help wondering thought, people are ok with this?
Basically Apple are saying: "Do not attempt to install an older version of OSX which came preinstalled. If so, expect multiple failures." Really?! Has it always been so? For me it's not like I'm going to install Snow Leopard on my Late 2013 Retina MBP, but I would expect some form of backward compatibility between the previous version and it successor. Apparently this is not possible, and how is this even acceptable?
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I simply want to download the OS but I expect some registry values (like windows' registry) keeps preventing this.
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