Replacing Bad Laptop Drive - Install issues

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  1. Zidane24
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    Antman said:
    Zidane24 said:
    Antman he mentioned that NTLDR came up. Since the Vista installer ran and failed that would mean that the bootloader is a little messed up right now which is fine. The issue I see here is that the Windows 7 DVD wasn't even booted...it skipped over it and tried to boot an OS. Bad Windows 7 disc or drive?
    Not if the laptop is set to, or instructed to, boot from the DVD. On a Dell, press F12 to select boot device.

    If DVD is selected, and the error appears, it means the DVD is not bootable.
    Exactly what I was implying (if that wasn't clear). Either the disc is bad or wasn't bootable to begin with
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  3. tkenney65
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    It is an image from Technet. The laptop is set by default to boot from CD/DVD but I will see if F12 causes it to read the image on the drive.
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  4. tkenney65
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    OK...looks like a bad image. The 32-bit version image won't boot but the 64-bit (which I have on another PC) does boot. I will reimage it at a slower speed and try again tomorrow. Thanks so much for the help!!!!!
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  6. Antman
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    tkeney - Sorry, but the old man must retire for the night.
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  7. tkenney65
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       New #15

    Thanks to all above for your help. The DVD/CD drive turned out to be failing. I loaded my image onto a USB drive and installed from there. All set


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  8. Zidane24
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    Excellent...enjoy Windows 7

    At least you have a good excuse to replace your DVD drive now (Dirt cheap these days)
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