F12 boot menu to reload Windows 7

[bojopr]

I'm running Win7 64-bit on a home-built machine. I'm trying to reformat C drive.
OK. So, my bios is set to boot only from CD. My keyboard is enabled in the bios. Yet when I use F12 to enter boot menu, hdd is shown as selected. When I scoll down, select CD and hit enter, my machine still boots from hdd. I have used imgburn to burn a new copy of the Win7 DVD in case mine was faulty... still no go. Any further suggestions anyone.
Thanks, BoJoPr

 

[alvine]

use the original copy of win7

 

[Hawkeye22]

It sounds like it didn't copy/clone properly. If your boot order is set to CD/DVD first, then hard drive and it continues to boot from the hard drive, then the system thinks a non-bootable disk is in the CD drive.

 

[bojopr]

I have my original Win7 disk. That's what I tried originally. Then it was suggested to me that it may be faulty. So I used the link provided to my by another forum and used imgburn to create another iso copy, but still having the same problems.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Is this a legal copy of windows?

 

[das_stig]

I used the links from http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/28517-Windows-7-w-o-SP1-and-SP1-Media-Refresh-Direct-Download-Links to download a replacement disk and then remove the cfg to allow me to install the flavours of Windows 7 I have licences for. Nothing illegal has happened, as links provided by Microsuck.

 

[bojopr]

Is this a legal copy of windows?

YES!

 

[Hawkeye22]

^ Sorry, didn't mean to insult you, but had to ask since most times, this is the problem.

I'd use the links das_stig provided to download a new copy of the installer and see if that works. Use the registration key that was provided with your copy.