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Unable to install a new OS due to boot up sequence

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kamfher   10-18-2009 at 08:10:07 PM

i am wanting to install windows 7 on my custom built PC but i keep getting an error message that says it can't install due to the boot function...any one have any ideas how i can get the awesome of windows 7 and kill the red headed bastard child that is of vista

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ulysses35   10-18-2009 at 08:29:55 PM
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Simple... enter BIOS on start up and select the firts boot device as your DVD drive. Save the changes and re-boot... you pc will probably as you to press a key during start up to boot from DVD...

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kamfher   10-19-2009 at 03:53:36 AM
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i switched the boot order to that and it didn't work...also it might be a good idea to note that this is a custom built gaming PC

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jitpublisher   10-19-2009 at 04:12:39 AM
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Are you using a bootable install disk?

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kamfher   10-19-2009 at 04:48:32 AM
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i have no idea what that means...all i am doing is attempting to get the boot order correct so windows 7 will take it so far the origonal boot didn't work and ulysses answer didn't work as well and all i have personally have done is change the holt settings to no errors and it if helps the mother board is a XFX nForce 780i SLI

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Herr_Koos   10-19-2009 at 09:48:05 AM
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Question: Is it the real thing, as in genuine Windows 7, or some pirated image that you pulled from a dodgy torrent site? If option 2, I'm not surprised if it won't boot.

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jitpublisher   10-19-2009 at 02:47:57 PM
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If you don't know what that means, stop everything you are doing and take the PC to a shop. You don't know enough about your PC to being trying to install anything.

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kamfher   10-19-2009 at 04:18:08 PM
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i have a real copy of windows 7 its on my laptop and it works and im too cheap to go too a shop and have a professional install it

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jitpublisher   10-19-2009 at 04:33:10 PM
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Are you are trying to use the install, or the restore disk from your laptop to install Windows 7 on another computer?
If that is what you are tyring to do, it simply won't work.

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kamfher   10-19-2009 at 04:40:22 PM
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im using the windows 7 disk on the desktop..and i got both the 64 and 32 bit the 64 just will not work but the 32 works till it has to reboot then i get the message saying that the boot order is the problem

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