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Newly Formatted C, This installation disc isn't compatible No Boot!
Hi. My brother is trying to install Win 7 Pro 64 bit onto a HD previously containing XP. the drive has been formatted using Partition Wizard and the HD had a small unallocated partition which was merged to make one drive.
On inserting and trying to boot from the Windows 7 CD the BIOS shows to "press any key to boot from Cd DVD drive........"
Then nothing, the Windows CD will not boot.
I am wondering if the problem is the MBR, in PW I think there is an option to repair the MBR. Would this resolve the problem?
We have set up the CD as primary boot drive and PW boots fine from the CD however I guess this is booting into dos.
Any suggestions as to what to try?