Installing Windows 7

Hartsbell · 30 Jan 2011

Kay, so. If you've seen any of my other posts you'll know that I was having major problems with my comp. Nothing worked so I was told to take it in to Staples (Which I didn't want to do, but had no other choice) I took it in and they changed my hard drive. Put a smaller one in, and put Vista on it. Now I have a Windows 7 burnt disk. And every time I try to run it it just takes me to the burning program that I used. I'm not sure how to actually run it to get Windows 7 back. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hartsbell · 30 Jan 2011

Joules said:

You sure there are files on the disk you burnt. Sometimes I have had that happen to me where I thought the data was there but it wasn't....I think thats what your looking at.

Yeah, The person I got the disk from used it on my brothers computer.

Hartsbell · 30 Jan 2011

When I look at the properties of the disk it says .iso Any ideas on helping me fix it? I'm getting really sick of Vista.

gregrocker · 30 Jan 2011

How do you plan to activate Win7?

Try booting the DVD to clean install: Boot from CD - How to Boot your Computer from a Bootable CD or DVD - Boot to CD

Clean Install Windows 7

Hartsbell · 30 Jan 2011

I got the disk from a family friend. I have the activation code. The person I got it from burnt it. I've tried to boot it right from the boot menu and that still didn't work.

gregrocker · 30 Jan 2011

Try to run it from Vista desktop. Choose Custom install to overwrite Vista partition.

If this fails, find another Win7 installer for your version to try install.

theog · 30 Jan 2011

Can you explore the disk & post a screen shot of the disk?
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DocBrown · 30 Jan 2011

If the file is stil in the .iso format, it needs to be copied to a folder on the HD & burned to a DVD properly with ImgBurn (Freeware) at 4x speed & verify on.

Bare Foot Kid · 31 Jan 2011

Hello Hartsbell.

I would suggest that after you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media you use Step One of this tutorial at the link below to do a wipe (secure erase) to the entire Hard Disk Drive, running this then using the outline in Step Two #2 to create and format a single 100GB partition using diskpart will get you a clean all and a chkdsk /r for the best possible space to install Windows 7 to.

Information

After you have made backups of everything you care to save and you want to do a real wipe "clean all" to the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) have a look at this tutorial at the link below, it over-writes everything, all the old Windows code including all the old Windows drivers, giving you the best possible space to install Windows 7 to; it goes hand-in-hand with a clean install.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

How to Do a Clean Installation with Windows 7

Hartsbell · 31 Jan 2011

Thanks for all your help, in the end I had to get winrar and open it that way. Thanks anyway!