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Solve : install windows 7 on a pc with no OS?

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I bought a PC with no OS. I downloaded windows 7 home PREMIUM from my MSDN subscription.

I put the Windows 7 installation DVD in the drive and booted up the computer.  I get a screen with 2 choices. 
F2 Bios SETTINGS and F8

When I hit F2 Bios setup -  I get a black screen with the MESSAGE 'no active partition found'

I hit F8 and set the boot device to be the cd\dvd drive and when it tries to boot off the windows 7 dvd, I get a BOOT FAILURE message.

what do I have to do to install windows 7 on this machine?change the boot order so it boots to the DVD instead of trying to boot to the hard disk.I did change the boot order to boot off the DVD.  I just get an error that SAYS 'boot failure'

The DVD CONTAINS the files and folders that I extracted from the ISO file that I downloaded from MSDN ( Windows 7 Home premium edition (64bit) . Quote from: itsonlyme4 on December 02, 2010, 05:45:52 AM

I did change the boot order to boot off the DVD.  I just get an error that says 'boot failure'

The DVD contains the files and folders that I extracted from the ISO file that I downloaded from MSDN ( Windows 7 Home premium edition (64bit) .

you have you burn the ISO directly to the disk. you can't extract the files, and then burn the files.I did not know.   I burned the ISO file directly to a DVD and tried to boot up off of it.   I get a black screen with the error ' no active partition'try ImgBurn free
http://www.imgburn.com/

If you're not sure how to burn the disk there is a guide here
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/Burning+ISO+Images+with+ImgBurnWhy not follow the instructions on the MSDN page ? ?


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