Did I ruin my HDD?

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ViolentPacifist

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New build, first-timer. Don't know jack-shit. New motherboard, new CPU, new HDD. Don't have an OS to install. Don't have a Cd/DVD with my OS installation. With everything plugged in, I tried putting in my old HDD, it went to Windows, and asked me if I wanted to use Startup Repair. But it couldn't repair. I decided it may be best not to use my old HDD right off the bat, and try to install something brand new on the new HDD. By this time, I'd already downloaded one BIOS update from the Asus website. I downloaded SteamOS and put it on a USB flash drive, but it won't boot. Disk I/O Error. I just have the SATA Seagate Barracuda (brand new) plugged to the motherboard. I had the old Cd/DVD drive plugged it to it, but I unplugged it for this process as well.

Did plugging in another SATA HDD with an OS on it and running Startup Repair several times possibly ruin my old HDD or... well, what the heck do I do?

Motherboard: M5A97 LE R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 6300
 
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someone755

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If you have another PC handy, download LiLi (Linux Live USB creator).
Then, get Ubuntu or Lubuntu.
Use LiLi to make your USB bootable, then select the thing from your BIOS to boot. From there on, use the (L)ubuntu installer to wipe your HDD and, from there on, install Windows.

You can't just put an image onto an USB, you have to actually make it bootable for it to boot off of.
You also can't run windows on multiple PCs from the same HDD, because of some weird driver/registry thing.

It's a first time for everything, I guess. I almost fried my USB once from making 10 bootable USBs on it in one day :p
 
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