Cannot boot disc onto new hard drive

beab

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Hi, I need some help with this as I've been tearing my hair out!

My laptop's hard drive died a few weeks back. I've got a new hard drive and popped it in, and gotten a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on disc to install it. I've got in the BIOS the disc drive as the first choice to boot from, and I've even selected it by hand through F10 at the manufacturer's logo.

What am I doing wrong? I've been trying everything for the past few hours and nothing has helped.
 

USAFRet

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What is in the boot order? The new hard drive, or the DVD drive?
You want the DVD drive...
 

beab

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I already said that the disc drive (the DVD) is already first priority in BIOS...

My laptop make is a Toshiba Satellite C850-1KN. It originally had Windows 8 (self-installing) on the old hard drive, but since that isn't sold unless it's an upgrade I've got a copy of Windows 7 to stick on there first.
 

beab

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I've done both and neither has worked. I've gone through 5 DVD-R's already today. Any ideas? I haven't got a USB drive to use that's large enough either.
 

USAFRet

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What s/w are you using to burn, and what were the exact steps/choices. Still sounds like an incorrect copy on the DVD.

For instance...CDBurnerXP (what I use) has a choice for "Burn ISO image". This writes it properly to the DVD.
'Copy' or 'make executable' won't do it.
 

beab

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I already said I used ImgBurn and didn't just copy the files, I made a disc that can be used as an install disc and works on the desktop I'm using now, but NOT my laptop. It was written properly to the DVD and does work, but my laptop doesn't pick it up and detect it.
 

COLGeek

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I was asking if you had access to a USB DVD drive, not a "thumb drive". USAFRet is right, this is either an ISO image issue or an optical drive issue in your Satellite (at this point).
 

beab

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As I said, the disc does work so I presume it's something wrong with my optical drive?

And no, I have no access to a USB Disc Drive unfortunately. I presume if I tried with a USB one and it worked then I'd know my internal disc drive is broken.