WIN 7 will not load on new HDD

[Chuck603]

I had a HDD crash. I bought a 1 TB SATA HDD to replace it and decided to get legal and bought Win 7 32 OEM Home Pro. I replaced the HDD, inserted the CD, set BIOS to boot from CD. After "Verifying DMI Pool Data", I received message "Boot From CD" Hesitates a few seconds and then I receive "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" Here I am stuck.

Actions: I have checked BIOS. HDD setting are AUTO.
I replaced SATA cable.
I replaced DVD drive with known good one along with ribbon cable.
I even reset CMOS to be sure there were no issues there.
I tried another Win7 CD that had been installed on another PC last week and it did the same thing.

CPU Celeron D 326 2.53 GHZ 256 cache
MOBO MSI 915GLM-V V1
BIOS Phoenix V6.00PG


Previous OS was Win XP.

Any thoughts?

 

[TVeblen]

The Installation DVD is not booting. Sounds like a bad CD/DVD drive, or a bad installation DVD.

Will any other disk boot? An XP install disk for instance?

Where did you get this "OEM" disk? Ebay?

 

[scrooge]

check your boot list in your bios and put your dvd as first and next your harddrive.
see if that helps you out..

scrooge

 

[whs]

Did you get a little message on the top left of the black screen saying "Hit any key". Because if you did not hit a key, it will default to the active partition for booting. And if it does not find one, you got a problem.

 

[Chuck603]

I swapped a known good DVD drive and both DVD drives worked in the other system. The Win7 disk is brand new purchased at Microcenter.

The boot sequence is CDROM, Hard Disk, CDROM. Boot from other device = ENABLED.

I did not see any unusual messages.

I don't have another copy of older Windows here. I do have another Win7 disk, same kind as I have that has already been installed on another PC here. It won't boot either. I'm beginning to wonder if the MOBO is bad.

 

[Bill2]

If the mobo is capable of booting from usb (and you have another working computer) you can create a win7 install stick.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html

 

[Chuck603]

I do have a boot agent. Realtek RTL8139x

I launced it when it was booting and it gives me a couple of options
Network Boot Protocol = PXE (other options are not avail to change for this item)
Boot Order = ROM Disable (other avail are Int 18h, Int 19h, PnP/BEV(BBS))
There is a Show Config Message but that just hides a bunch of boot config stuff when it starts. It is set to ENABLE so I do see it.
Show Message Time is set to 3 seconds. This is how long the message shows.

It looks like ROM Disable means to boot local devices. I tried the others and they are looking at my ethernet connection.

 

[Chuck603]

Bill2, I'll have to got out to get a 8MB stick. I don't have one here. And I don't know if I can boot USB on this MOBO. I have the document and specs but if I recall they were not real helpful. Thanks

 

[Chuck603]

I just pulled the HDD out of an older HP Pavillion that has a bad Psup. It had WinXP on it. I put it in the mahine and it came up wanting to boot in SAFE. I tried to bring it up and I started to get the XP logo and the machine restarted. It does that over and over. No surprise though since the hardware is quite different.

 

[tw33k]

When you got the "Boot from CD" message, did you press a key on your keyboard?

 

[Chuck603]

tw3k - I did not hit a key to get the message. But since it says to insert a disk and press enter, I pressed several times. I did not that when I press ENTER, the light never lights on the CDROM. But it does light and runs a bit upon initial boot.

 

[mborner]

Chuck603, I read your OP very carefully. You said

"I received message "Boot From CD" Hesitates a few seconds and then I receive "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

This is your issue ^^ right there.

Try this;
1. Enter the bios and set your boot order to boot from the CD-ROM first. (sounds like you already did that)
2. Insert the install disk in the drive and then restart the computer.
3. When the message "Press Any Key To Boot From CD" appears, do what it says and press any key. You'll only have a few seconds to do this or it will try to boot to you HDD with no partition on it.
You can continue your installation from there.

 

[Chuck603]

No difference. I press any key and "Boot for CD:" returns and immediately DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
Same each time I press enter.
I'm going to pull the HDD out of my daughters machine and see if it will run on this one. Hers in new and I know all the H/w is sound.
Just a note. I see the SATA drive shows up as a slave in IDE channel 2. I was thinking it should be master and was automatically assigned. It's set for auto in BIOS.

 

[TVeblen]

I remembered I had a similar problem to yours when installing W7 on this box. Maybe you are experiencing the same thing, or if it's a similar issue, maybe my improvised solution will work for you too.

On my install I would install the DVD in drive and re-start, and the boot loader would stall at "CD Boot Device....Ready__", and that message would not change. The curser just kept flashing, and it would not boot the DVD.

After much head scratching I got frustrated and just hit the RESET button on the case to re-boot, and on that restart it would progress to "Press Any Key to Boot From CD" and when I pressed any key it booted the DVD.

So: DVD in tray > restart > freeze > hit RESET > boots the DVD.

Don't ask me why this happens or why that works!

 

[Chuck603]

TVeblen, thanks. I tried it but still no go. I did take the HDD with Win 7 operating on another machine and put it in this one I'm working on. It booted, but it saw a problem and wanted to do a repair. As I would expect. I tried to skip repair to see what happened and it restarted. Since I have now changed everything except memory, CPU and mobo, I can get a new mobo with a 775 socket for $55 at Microcenter. I sort of think the IDE controller on the mobo may be toasted. Or the SATA controller. I did remove the memory and the graphics accelerator to bring it to a minimum configuration and it still would not read the DVD.

So tomorrow I will hopefully grab the mobo and swap it. I wonder if the new HDD could be the problem? I had a strange problem on my first Win7 install with a bad HDD out of the box. But at least Win7 would start to install.

Thanks all. any other ideas are sure welcome.

 

[Ballistic]

Any pulling of Hard drives on other computers will result in the same... they will get you a boot screen, followed by a "Windows" logo but then you won't be able to boot to windows because those other hard drives are specific to the machines you are pulling them from (Most OEM vendors tattoo the hards drives to the Mobo's in order to prevent someone from pulling the drive and using the software within on another computer) so that should have been no surprise... Sounds like you just have something plugged in backwards to me...

 

[Chuck603]

Ballistic, thanks. I considered that the OEM version on the other machine would be specific to that machine. But it did boot to a certain point telling me I have a working processor. I figure for $55 a new mobo should tell me something. I have quadruple triple super duper checked all hardware, cables, you name it. The only think I have not done is check the voltages. I have another Psupply I can drop in though.

Thanks again.

 

[Ballistic]

Have you tried installing the HDD into another computer and installing Windows 7 onto it??? If not then try that, (This will verify if the hard drive is good or not)if the HDD is good then go ahead and follow through with Windows install on the other machine and when done take it out and install it into the machine your having trouble with but install zero of the other removable devices so it only has one device to draw from at boot up... This should get you into windows on the current build unless their truly is something wrong with the mobo

 

[Ballistic]

also don't use your key until you have all the hardware problems worked out so during install on the other computer just follow through without using key to go through for 30 day evaluation since you have OEM and I don't want it to bind the key to the other equipment on the computer your using to install it but not the computer and components that will be the final build you intend to use the key with

 

[Chuck603]

Excellent idea. Thanks