noobiest noob question from noobtown

dandos23 · 28 Feb 2011 at 18:33

schizo said:
he did not say it was a digital copy so what else do you want us to think ?

Why would you presume that it is a cracked copy?

There are loads of threads where people have asked how to burn a digital copy of windows 7, you only have to look.

Reaper 392 · 28 Feb 2011 at 18:35

Brian8bit said:
Why are you doing that? Can't you just install Windows first?

tried it, it said it wasnt a proper boot device

also, went for A

oh joy, it wants me to put a floppy into drive A, and i dont have a floppy drive or a floppy

Brian8bit · 28 Feb 2011 at 18:37

Reaper 392 said:
tried it, it said it wasnt a proper boot device

Make sure you've set the CD/DVD drive to boot first in the BIOS.

Reaper 392 · 28 Feb 2011 at 18:40

Brian8bit said:
Make sure you've set the CD/DVD drive to boot first in the BIOS.

hmm, i think i'll wait till the weekend when my dad is around. i have literally no clue what im doing

Brian8bit · 28 Feb 2011 at 18:54

Reaper 392 said:
hmm, i think i'll wait till the weekend when my dad is around. i have literally no clue what im doing

When you power on the computer, as it's booting up and posting, there should be information about how to access the BIOS. Normally it's either pressing the delete or F2 key on the keyboard. When you're in BIOS there should be a "Boot" menu. Use the arrow keys to navigate to that. When you get to that part of the menu, you should be able to set the boot device priority. Since you have Windows on CD/DVD, you want to make the CD/DVD drive first in the boot priority. Then the HDD second and any other methods (such as USB or whatever) last.

Then you exit BIOS and choose to save the options. The computer will restart, so put your CD/DVD in the drive and it should boot from that first.

Reaper 392 · 28 Feb 2011 at 19:00

Brian8bit said:
When you power on the computer, as it's booting up and posting, there should be information about how to access the BIOS. Normally it's either pressing the delete or F2 key on the keyboard. When you're in BIOS there should be a "Boot" menu. Use the arrow keys to navigate to that. When you get to that part of the menu, you should be able to set the boot device priority. Since you have Windows on CD/DVD, you want to make the CD/DVD drive first in the boot priority. Then the HDD second and any other methods (such as USB or whatever) last.

Then you exit BIOS and choose to save the options. The computer will restart, so put your CD/DVD in the drive and it should boot from that first.

thanks, but im just leaving it till dad is around

Sayso · 28 Feb 2011 at 19:32

Reaper 392 said:
thanks, but im just leaving it till dad is around

go on go on go on go on....you can do it