Unable to install Vista

I have successfully partitioned my (second) hard drive and have started Boot Camp. The program will not recognize my Windows Vista installation DVD. I checked the disc on my on PC and it works fine. What's wrong?

nmiller822 wrote:
I have successfully partitioned my (second) hard drive and have started Boot Camp. The program will not recognize my Windows Vista installation DVD. I checked the disc on my on PC and it works fine. What's wrong?
This may be one of those infernal cases where one optical drive will read a DVD but another won't. The safest way to check would be to take the DVD to yet another computer -- preferably another Mac Pro, perhaps at a local Apple Store? -- and see if it's recognized there. If it is, and it's just your computer's optical drive that can't read it, you could either get a replacement DVD from Microsoft or (if you're under warranty) have Apple look at the optical drive.

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