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Name: walverson
Date: October 21, 2009 at 09:28:05 Pacific
OS: Windows 7
Product: Microsoft Windows professional 64-bit 7
Subcategory: General
Comment:

In my former PC I had one hard drive that had Windows XP on it, and another hard drive with no OS, just music and videos, etc. I formatted this secondary hard drive recently and now I am trying to use it in a new computer I just finished building, however, even with the Windows 7 DVD in the drive, instead of booting properly I get a blank screen with "Error Loading OS". How do I install Windows 7 on this formatted hard drive?



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Response Number 1
Name: Razor2.3
Date: October 21, 2009 at 09:35:48 Pacific
Reply:

Go into your BIOS, and make sure the CD/DVD drive comes before the hard disk in the boot order.


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Response Number 2
Name: walverson
Date: October 21, 2009 at 09:37:18 Pacific
Reply:

I tried that. I got the same error no matter what


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Response Number 3
Name: Razor2.3
Date: October 21, 2009 at 14:29:06 Pacific
Reply:

Then your Win7 CD is bad.

EDIT: Or your PC is trying to boot off of something that isn't your HDD or DVD


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Response Number 4
Name: rich1949
Date: October 26, 2009 at 17:20:55 Pacific
Reply:

Does the system boot with any other disk in the drive such as an XP or Vista one? If the system BIOS is set to boot from the CD and it does not read then I suspect the drive is bad. Do you have a different drive to try?

Richard


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Response Number 5
Name: walverson
Date: October 27, 2009 at 05:00:48 Pacific
Reply:

Turns out it was the disc. thank you guys for the help.


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