need help installing windows. even my dad is stumped

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****PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE****

the problem is solved now. i know i made too many threads about this, and im sorry

im trying to install windows 7 by DVD. ive changed the order of boot devices in the BIOS so that the DVD is the first boot device but its not recognising the DVD. my dads computer (windows NT) recognises the DVD as a new system DVD. what am i doing wrong?
 
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its an internal DVD drive. this one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

i have tried both of these configurations with no joy:
- HDD in sata 1; DVD in Sata 6
- HDD in sata 1; DVD in Sata 2

it recognised the DVD drive in both configurations, and recognised it as a boot device

i will try the DVD in Sata 1 and HDD in sata 2, but i doubt it will make any difference

my only other idea is that the boot disk is the problem, which i am also going to check out soon
 
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This is the 4th/5th thread on the same topic Reaper.
We told you exactly what to do in the previous thread seen here.
no, this was the 1st or second. someone has just bumped it.

also, as i said in the other one, the problem is fixed. windows is now on my new comp, and sorry for the different threads. i made new threads because i thought the problem had changed enough to warrant a new thread


****PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE****
theres enough of my windows 7 threads here already
 
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