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    reinstallation of windows 7

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by krisalexsan, Oct 22, 2011.

  1. krisalexsan

    krisalexsan Newbie

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    so my girlfriend asked me to do a fresh install of windows for her on her laptop.

    i've done this many times on my system (m6400) but when i try to boot from the cd on her computer, there is no option at all to boot from cd.

    a quick fix i saw was to take out her hard drive, slap it in my laptop, reinstall windows on that, then put her hard drive back in her laptop right after the install is finished. then i would install all the designated drivers for her system.

    my question is would this work? would it matter what system windows 7 was installed on? as long as you use the designated drivers for that system?

    thanks alot for any help! :D
     
    krisalexsan, Oct 22, 2011
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  2. Derz

    Derz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have you checked in the BIOS to see if booting from CD is disabled?
     
    Derz, Oct 22, 2011
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  3. krisalexsan

    krisalexsan Newbie

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    i have went into bios, made sure it was enabled, and also changed the boot order. still nothing
     
    krisalexsan, Oct 22, 2011
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  4. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    What laptop does she have? That makes no sense that it won't boot from media. That's weird, indeed.
     
    anseio, Oct 22, 2011
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  5. krisalexsan

    krisalexsan Newbie

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    yea, i have no idea what happened. but i just figured it out. kind of.

    she has an hp elitebook 8540w. i'm not sure if i'm correct in this, but ive linked the source of the problem to be connected to the "hp bloatware" that was installed on the computer. maybe hp was trying trying to prevent me from doing a clean install? haha idk.

    anyways, i just copied the windows install files to an external hdd and installed from that. after i did a clean install, everything works fine now. when i go into boot options, the dvd drive shows up now as a bootable source.

    this was weird.
     
    krisalexsan, Oct 22, 2011
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  6. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Glad you worked it out! :D
     
    anseio, Oct 22, 2011
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