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Installed new a hard drive but Win7 boot disc wont load. Bios says ODD not installed.?!

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September 5, 2014 1:26:42 PM

A hard drive failed on my 2 yr old Lenovo z585. I bought a new Seagate 1tb sshd and installed it. From another computer I used image burn to make a bootable windows 7 install disc. I assume it works properly, but I don't know. I restarted a different computer with the disc in the tray...and for moment a black screen came up that said 'to install from disc drive press any key'....so i assumed that meant it burnt correctly.

Anyway...I have that disc in the computer with the new hard drive, but when i turn the computer on, it never says anything about installing windows. The dvd light flickers and i hear it spin for a while then a Bios type of page shows up and says:

Boot menu / app menu
1. ata hddo ...etc
2. pci lan ...etc
3. atapi cd tsst corp cddvdw

i've entered the #3 on the list..it just brings up another page for a moment and returns to the boot menu page.
i've also gone to the bios boot order section...it had something like 'usb hdd' at the top of the boot order for some reason ? So, I tried putting USB CD and ATAPI CD at the top and restarting each time...neither of them made any difference in getting the install disc to begin. It just seems like it's doing something for a little while...then back to that boot menu screen.
Also, it says UEFI is enabled ... i have no idea if it is supposed to be or not.
Plus, I just noticed the information section in bios says "ODD not installed". could that be the problem ?
my dvd was working fine before my original hard drive failed. i was extremely gentle when removing and replacing. the tray still opens and lights up and spins


Can anyone help me with this...i'm ripping my hair out over here...it's bad enough that my not even 2 yr old drive failed to begin with, this computer has never even left my desk.

the disc is windows 7 home premium 64, downloaded from an official source that microsoft recommends.

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