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Will Not Boot Even With Disc
Friend of mine gave me his Dell tower to check out. I know it's a 64 bit system but I don't know the model (don't they put model numbers on the chassis anymore?).
I just goes into a perpetual boot loop when you turn it on. Hitting the Repair Your Computer (instead of Start Windows Normally) option just takes me to a grayish screen. So I put in the Windows Home Prem. 64 disc getting the 'press any key.... Then I get the 'Loading Files', I get the Starting Windows and then the Install Windows screen. If I select 'Repair' it just goes to that blueish screen with the branch and the little bird, and stays there. Two hours later and it hasn't moved.
If I select Install (instead of Repair), it takes me to that same blue screen with the white words 'Setup is starting'. This screen also never goes away.
If it was a hard drive problem wouldn't it have taken me to the OS screen selection where it would normally display Windows 7 Home Premium, but in the case of a bad drive it would say no OS found?