Re-install gone horribly wrong, driver help needed

[guyneedshelp123456789]

Okay, I'm just going to outright say it. I suck with computers. I tried re-installing windows today using USB boot but I was far from successful... I think there was a compatibility problem maybe? Anyway, after a while of me scratching my head I decided to try burning my own disk using the ISO file (yes, I'm the pillock who lost his install disk as you'd probably already guessed...). I popped the disk into my disk reader and nothing happened. I even tried going through the boot menu to specifically load from the disk but no joy. It just told me to enter boot media... Frustrating... Anyway, I think it may be a driver issue? I've never used a disk reader in this current machine, I pulled it out from my old case from years ago... Advice? Is it possible to install drivers without an OS? I've been at this for hours guys, please help me out, any advice is appreciated. There are no bad ideas at this point!

 

[Paul NZ]

Did you burn the iso to the dvd?? You cant boot from an ISO

If]http://rufus.akeo.ie/]If you've got an ISO use Rufus[/url]

Put a flash drive in, put it on MBR, add the ISO then start. Wait for it to finish boot from the flash drive (change bootdisk in BIOS to the flash drive)

If you use a flash drive use a USB 2 port not a USB 3 port. If youre installing Win7

 

[guyneedshelp123456789]

Did you burn the iso to the dvd?? You cant boot from an ISO

If]http://rufus.akeo.ie/]If you've got an ISO use Rufus[/url]

Put a flash drive in, put it on MBR, add the ISO then start. Wait for it to finish boot from the flash drive (change bootdisk in BIOS to the flash drive)

If you use a flash drive use a USB 2 port not a USB 3 port. If youre installing Win7

I did burn to DVD, my only pen drive big enough to hold he install is a USB 3 drive. My motherboard only supports USB 2.0, but, the pen drive worked fine for saving / transporting files in my 2.0 ports... Will this still work? Thanks for responding!

 

[Paul NZ]

Should work ok with the flash drive. Did you use something like rufus to copy the contents of the ISO to it?

 

[guyneedshelp123456789]

Should work ok with the flash drive. Did you use something like rufus to copy the contents of the ISO to it?

I used microsoft's tool, the ISO to USB or DVD tool... thing

 

[Paul NZ]

k that should work too.

Just reboot go into the BIOS change it to flash drive for the bootdisk.

Put the flash drive in. Save settings. Press a key when it says to, install then wait !

 

[guyneedshelp123456789]

k that should work too.

Just reboot go into the BIOS change it to flash drive for the bootdisk.

Put the flash drive in. Save settings. Press a key when it says to, install then wait !

I tried all of ha before for hours 🙁 I kept getting the infamous "Couldn't create a new partition" error.

 

[Paul NZ]

If there's anything on the hdd now delete all partitions then recreate them. If you want more than 1 partition

 

[guyneedshelp123456789]

If there's anything on the hdd now delete all partitions then recreate them. If you want more than 1 partition

Already tried all of that. 🙁

 

[Paul NZ]

Do]http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/i-cant-install-windows-8]Do this[/url].

Even tho its not Win7 it should work with Win7