I spent Sunday afternoon making bootable DVDs of the Win & ISO file I downloaded. None of them worked, and I used 3 different burners. Today I was at it again with different burners and as was reading the instructions for Free Easy Burner and ran across this piece of advise.
If you have more than one DVD drive (like I do) the computer only allows for one disk drive to be booted from.
Once I inserted one the DVD from Sunday into my read only drive it booted and Win 7 started it's installation.
I will be dual booting so I want Win 7 on its' own drive and partition. Now I can unplug drive C: and load a clean Win 7.
What a learning curve this installation turned out to be. Hoping this will help someone.
John
If you have more than one DVD drive (like I do) the computer only allows for one disk drive to be booted from.
Once I inserted one the DVD from Sunday into my read only drive it booted and Win 7 started it's installation.
I will be dual booting so I want Win 7 on its' own drive and partition. Now I can unplug drive C: and load a clean Win 7.
What a learning curve this installation turned out to be. Hoping this will help someone.
John
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell Dimension 9200
- OS
- Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit & Win 7 Professional 32 bit
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 E6320 Duo (4MB L2 cache, 1.86Ghz, 1066FSB
- Motherboard
- Dell
- Memory
- 4GB Kingston Dual Channel DDR2, PC2-5300, 667Mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- 256MB nVidia GeForce 8600GTS
- Sound Card
- Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22 inch Widescreen Digital(Dell) @ 19" Acer LCD
- Screen Resolution
- Dell 1680 x 1050, Axcer 1280 x1024
- Hard Drives
- 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm w/ DataBurst Cache
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, 2 x 1TB USB drives for BU
- PSU
- APC Back UPS ES 750
- Case
- Standard
- Cooling
- Standard
- Keyboard
- MX5500 Logitech
- Mouse
- Logitech Bluetooth MX5500
- Other Info
- Dell Studio Laptop, Win 7 Pro 64 bit.
