Installing Fresh Copy of Windows 7

rikitheshadow

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Trying to look for some expertise on this. I had a old Windows 7 machine i imaged for my GF a ways back and the Windows 7 load eventually went into a boot error 0xc00000f. At this point i know the OS load was not going to simply work or want to be repaired easily so i just thought I'll wipe it and start fresh. But the complications I'm having with this is befuddling me....

I've tried 3x hard drives...
1x WD 160gig HDD, 1x Samsung 160gig HDD, and 1x WD 1TB Caviar Green HDD
Two Sets of Memory...
2x 1gig Sticks [OEM Dell stuff] and 2x 2gig Crucial DDR2 sticks
Two to three CD/DVD-RW Drives...
Two Motherboards....
Abit IP35 Pro Intel 775 Socket with a 2.6Ghz Dual Core
Dell Optiplex 740 AMD Athlon 2.3GHz Dual Core

But what happens is either the Windows 7 disc is ignored in favor of the hard disk regardless of boot order or the Disc Drive just stops reading it. And even tried 2x different copies of Windows 7 and it still won't go into the Windows 7 installation tool so I can re-format the hard drives. The first 160gig WD drive I have had the original copy of Windows 7 on it and will not boot from CD so i can't even repair it. The 160gig Samsung had a old Ubuntu load that was used in a Bar setting for advertisements and sports team scores to be displayed on a TV [original drive from the Optiplex 740] and that won't boot from CD. And the WD Caviar Green drive will not boot from CD but somehow has been formatted previously by Me. I am unable to re-format the Caviar drive on another computer as my desktop says there is another application using it. I just want to be able to wipe any of these drives to load windows 7 but i can't even get the installation disk to read on the same hardware or disk that my current working windows 7 computer was made by.

Hard Drive Tests Pass on the Dell Optiplex mobo and there is nothing wrong with any of the Memory as the Ubuntu load runs with no problems on the old Samsung drive.

Why would any of the computers stop reading the Windows 7 disc and just flip back over to the hard drive? I've tried several different DVD drives connected either USB or SATA, and I've made all the necessary adjustments in the Bios about boot priority.

Any suggestions before I go through the tedious process of obtaining another copy of windows 7?...i think it was Pro.


On a side note I had a problem with loading operating system environments on servers before like this in which the first issue was with the disk drive was failing to read and the second was system requirements such as the architecture capabilities of the processor. But the Abit IP35 Pro has had no issues running a 64 bit operating system environment.
 
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If several computers using several drives do not boot from the disks, that points to the disks not being good. Try making a USB stick from those disks after creating an ISO file from them on a computer. Use the Microsoft ISO to USB took to make the boot stick.
If several computers using several drives do not boot from the disks, that points to the disks not being good. Try making a USB stick from those disks after creating an ISO file from them on a computer. Use the Microsoft ISO to USB took to make the boot stick.
 
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