Bought i5 bundle cant get it to work

Well it's good that your BIOS recognises your HDD.

Try to reformat your HDD's in another computer and confirm they are alive. I've had this happen and it turned out the HDD was dead!

You could also attempt to use a different HDD, preferably an older SATA drive (not one of these new advanced format SATA's with the 4K sectors which need aligning).

It could also be your DVD drives playing up or the Windows instillation CD itself. I know a lot of people prefer to install windows from a bootable USB. So you take a 5Gig USB stick and run a usbboot program and set it up so that when you boot from it, it acts like the Windows 7 boot DVD. It's lightning fast to install using this method too.
 
trentlad said:
Well it's good that your BIOS recognises your HDD.

Try to reformat your HDD's in another computer and confirm they are alive. I've had this happen and it turned out the HDD was dead!

You could also attempt to use a different HDD, preferably an older SATA drive (not one of these new advanced format SATA's with the 4K sectors which need aligning).

It could also be your DVD drives playing up or the Windows instillation CD itself. I know a lot of people prefer to install windows from a bootable USB. So you take a 5Gig USB stick and run a usbboot program and set it up so that when you boot from it, it acts like the Windows 7 boot DVD. It's lightning fast to install using this method too.
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HDD Is fine ive just formatted it on old PC

I made a bootable usb

And ive just made a bootable USB but im getting some error

it says

"the function from usb disk failed please check usb disck and rom file"

what does this mean
 
Bootable USB sticks are not always easy to make, unfortunately i cant help with this as i have only done it once and cant remember how (followed some tutorial). Maybe someone can point out a good tutorial. Your error basically means that the Bootable USB is not made correctly.
If i were you i would download another version of windows 7 (dont think i can say where from in here, just make sure it is a popular download with good comments). Make sure the copy you download is in an .ISO format then this should be easy for you to burn to a disk with a program like MagicISO (you can not just copy the files to a DVD as this will not copy the Boot files, but a .iso should already be made for you. Again don't just copy the .iso to DVD, use MagicISO ad select "Burn CD/DVD with iso" from the menu). If this dose not work try a few popular downloads until you are 100% sure you have a bootable DVD.
From what you have said, all should work using the F11 method of booting as long as the disk is bootable!
 
jonny512379 said:
Bootable USB sticks are not always easy to make, unfortunately i cant help with this as i have only done it once and cant remember how (followed some tutorial). Maybe someone can point out a good tutorial. Your error basically means that the Bootable USB is not made correctly.
If i were you i would download another version of windows 7 (dont think i can say where from in here, just make sure it is a popular download with good comments). Make sure the copy you download is in an .ISO format then this should be easy for you to burn to a disk with a program like MagicISO (you can not just copy the files to a DVD as this will not copy the Boot files, but a .iso should already be made for you. Again don't just copy the .iso to DVD, use MagicISO ad select "Burn CD/DVD with iso" from the menu). If this dose not work try a few popular downloads until you are 100% sure you have a bootable DVD.
From what you have said, all should work using the F11 method of booting as long as the disk is bootable!
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I made a windowsXP one and i was getting the same error, the pc would try load it i could tell as it would take time to loadback up but then that error appears

Also i use DAEMON tools to burn ISOs

If anyone could link me to a 100% posistive usb guide please
 
sheekey said:
Ive got that but i get this error when its done


status : Files copied successfully. However we were unable to run bootsect to make the USB device bootable,
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My googling powers suggest you are trying to run the tool on a 32bit windows and this does this, do you have a mate with window 7 64 you can run the tool from
 
Also it says

You can create a 32-bit Windows 7 bootable USB flash drive if your current Windows 7 installation is 32-bit or 64-bit.

So why wont it just create a 32 bit one for me as my cd has both ultimates on?
 
It took me a few attempts and a bit of reading to make a USB bootable disk and i am generally not too shabby around a pc.
Have you tried to make another bootable DVD, if not this is the way i think is easiest.
With broadband speeds it wont take you long to download a few windows versions (iso formats) and try to see if they are bootable copies (you can worry about or buy a licence after you get it all working if you like). DAEMON tools should be fine for this (although i don't use it i hear it will do the job).
 
Exactly.

The fact that you said it asks you to install 32bit or 64bit sounds like your trying to install windows onto your USB stick. That's wrong.

You need a specific program (there's free versions for sure) that allow you to create a bootable USB, so you run the program, select your operating system ISO and select your USB stick and it turns your USB stick into the DVD.

So effectively by booting off your USB stick you get the exact same options as you would if you put your Windows DVD in.

In this video the guy doesn't even need an ISO, he just uses the DVD in the PC!

 
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