Win7 OEM disk new HD install. What do I need?

Well I'll boot from the CD and try it.

The CD is mine. Bought it on line. Legal OEM Pro version.
Same machine just swapping primary drives.

Will look for advanced.
I probably missed it.

Thanks I'll go see what I find.
Check back later.
Mike

That screen but only install button appeared in the middle of screen.
Nothing at the bottom that I remember.....but it might be there.
I'll check it out now.

Thanks for the help Doc and eldinv.

I tried it from the Win7 install CD it wrote restore image back to the original HD.

Tried the repair CD where you can do restore repair mem test etc.
It wrote the image back to the original HD also.
There is no option to chose which drive or where but one.

There is an option that pops up to search for installed Win7 but it only finds the one copy on the old HD.
The repair CD after trying the image restore booted me back into the old HD Win7 where I am now.
That wasn't even an option in the bios earlier.

Going to try something else.

Thanks guys.
It just isn't working.
I even made a new image onto the new drive from the old.
It still only sees the image on the old and wants to restore it to the old.
I tried the Win7 CD as "eldinv" pointed out and the sytem repair disk as in the tutrial I mentioned earlier.
I even tried unplugging the old HD data and power connectors and install image.
BAH!

I'm just going to reload everything on the new one.
I started on the HD install at 10am this morning.

Thanks again for all the effort.
Greatly appreciated.
Mike

It is primary.

The new image would never come up as Dynamic disk like the original image. That is probably why it isn't being recognized as a system image.

I quit for now. I've been at this for 12 hours now.
I have patience if not I would have killed it already.

Thank you gentlemen for all your assistance.
Mike

So you have the target HD plugged in with unallocated space (not a partition),

have booted the Win7 DVD REpair console or REpair CD and chosen "Recover Using an Image,"

can browse to the image on the old HD which you KNOW is the old HD because there is another image there?

But it won't find the image you want to use on the same old HD? which you have placed in the same Primary partition?

Correct?

The problem may be that if you have two WindowsImageBackup files in the same root of the drive, it may not see the one you want. Plus they have to be named exactly that for the imaging app to detect them.

Try replacing the old image with the new one since you already know the old one is detected.