Weird Insatll Issues on Windows 7
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:51 pmHi,
I have a machine with Vista on it that is no longer booting consistently. I believe the HD is going bad. First thing I tried was to load the Vista CD to do a repair. When putting the CD in the drive I can't get it to boot from the CD even though the bios is set up boot from the CD first. Strangely, when I do have Vista running, if I load the Vista CD in the drive, the CD is not recognized. If I load a music CD or other CD's it will recognize them. My second solution idea was to load Windows 7 on a new HD. I connected the new HD, loaded the Window 7 CD into the drawer and again, it won't see the CD or boot from it. I get the "disk boot failure" message. So I got the machine to boot in Vista, was able to see the new HD and tried loading Windows 7 to the new drive but I still won't see the Windows 7 CD. I then made a copy of the Windows 7 CD onto a compact flash card and was able to load it onto the new HD using the Windows 7 setup folder on the compact flash card. Windows 7 is working fine on the new HD. Except that it won't boot into Windows 7 without the old HD installed in the machine. The process is as follows. Turn on the machine. Before booting up I'm now given the option to boot in Windows 7 or Vista whether the old drive is installed or not. If the old drive is not installed, it won't boot to Windows 7. I just get the "disk boot failure" message. If I do have the old HD installed, it will boot fine into Windows 7. Basically I have a machine that works but in a hacked sort of manner. Any idea on how to get the machine to boot up without the old HD installed?
Thanks, DD
I have a machine with Vista on it that is no longer booting consistently. I believe the HD is going bad. First thing I tried was to load the Vista CD to do a repair. When putting the CD in the drive I can't get it to boot from the CD even though the bios is set up boot from the CD first. Strangely, when I do have Vista running, if I load the Vista CD in the drive, the CD is not recognized. If I load a music CD or other CD's it will recognize them. My second solution idea was to load Windows 7 on a new HD. I connected the new HD, loaded the Window 7 CD into the drawer and again, it won't see the CD or boot from it. I get the "disk boot failure" message. So I got the machine to boot in Vista, was able to see the new HD and tried loading Windows 7 to the new drive but I still won't see the Windows 7 CD. I then made a copy of the Windows 7 CD onto a compact flash card and was able to load it onto the new HD using the Windows 7 setup folder on the compact flash card. Windows 7 is working fine on the new HD. Except that it won't boot into Windows 7 without the old HD installed in the machine. The process is as follows. Turn on the machine. Before booting up I'm now given the option to boot in Windows 7 or Vista whether the old drive is installed or not. If the old drive is not installed, it won't boot to Windows 7. I just get the "disk boot failure" message. If I do have the old HD installed, it will boot fine into Windows 7. Basically I have a machine that works but in a hacked sort of manner. Any idea on how to get the machine to boot up without the old HD installed?
Thanks, DD