I'm trying to install Windows 7 Home Premium on a new computer that I built yesterday (details below). It starts up ok and all components seem to be working, but when I go to install Windows I get the message "Boot disk failure; insert system disk and press Enter" When I do that, the CD drive spins a bit, but ends up giving me the same error message.
At the advice of a little googling and some friends, I tried changing the boot order so that the CD-ROM drive was first (and I even pressed f10 to save) but that didn't change anything.
I don't have another computer with a working disk drive, so I can't be sure that the windows disk is ok, and when I tried booting from an old XP disk, I got the same error message.
Any advice from the Tom's Hardware braintrust?
My machine:
Gigabyte GA-p55M-UD4
Intel Core i5
8 gigs RAM
2 x Radeon 5770
1 x 1 TB Western digital HD
Thanks!
At the advice of a little googling and some friends, I tried changing the boot order so that the CD-ROM drive was first (and I even pressed f10 to save) but that didn't change anything.
I don't have another computer with a working disk drive, so I can't be sure that the windows disk is ok, and when I tried booting from an old XP disk, I got the same error message.
Any advice from the Tom's Hardware braintrust?
My machine:
Gigabyte GA-p55M-UD4
Intel Core i5
8 gigs RAM
2 x Radeon 5770
1 x 1 TB Western digital HD
Thanks!