Asking for boot disk after replacing broken motherboard

[robotic38]

(My pc came pre-installed with windows 7 Ultimate)
Hey everyone, my old motherboard had bad capacitors, since I don't have the skills to replace them, I trashed it and got a new one. Other than being an MSI motherboard and the old one being Intel, they are exact copies of each other. After the install, I booted it up, it showed the start-up logo, then spat this out:

Boot failure
Insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key to continue

("Where's the 'Any' key!?" lol)

 

[nikorr]

Did u do a clean windows install?

 

[nikorr]

Can u get in to the safe mode?

Keep pressing F8 button during the BIOS start up.

 

[robotic38]

I Didn't do a reinstall because I don't have the CD, it came pre-installed.
F8 isn't working.

Update: I put a Ubuntu boot disk from a long time ago(not really), and it booted up with Ubuntu, but it came to a black screen and told me that it couldn't find a live file system. Is it not recognizing my hard drive?

 

[nikorr]

Well, Windows isn't Ubuntu.

And clean install is the key.

 

[nikorr]

Is it a retail version, that pre-installed W7 Ult.? Did u pay extra for it?

 

[nikorr]

If it is OEM Win7, and I think it is, than was it u who activated the windows?

U may have a way to get it activated again.

 

[robotic38]

No, I'm not the one that activated it. It's not OEM, the computer itself far out dates windows 7. I don't have the disk nor the key though, I only recently acquired the outdated thing.

 

[nikorr]

So there is no link to your name and that W7 Ult.?

 

[robotic38]

Oh, update! My motherboard must not be detecting the HDD, because I got into the BIOS and I can't set the HDD as a boot device, only my DVD drive.

 

[aqe040466]

(My pc came pre-installed with windows 7 Ultimate)
Hey everyone, my old motherboard had bad capacitors, since I don't have the skills to replace them, I trashed it and got a new one. Other than being an MSI motherboard and the old one being Intel, they are exact copies of each other. After the install, I booted it up, it showed the start-up logo, then spat this out:

Boot failure
Insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key to continue

("Where's the 'Any' key!?" lol)

You change the MB and use everything that came with the old PC right? The pre-installed Win 7 OS is solely for the old MB(motherboard) that Win 7 installed on the old MB is tied only and it will only run to the old motherboard. You have to buy a new copy of Win 7.

 

[robotic38]

You change the MB and use everything that came with the old PC right? The pre-installed Win 7 OS is solely for the old MB(motherboard) that Win 7 installed on the old MB is tied only and it will only run to the old motherboard. You have to buy a new copy of Win 7.

Aw, well that sucks

Still can't set HDD as boot device. :

 

[aqe040466]

Aw, well that sucks

Still can't set HDD as boot device. :

Win 7 Home Premium OEM version ia only $99.99 in Micro Center.