Alright so I built myself a new computer to upgrade from XP to 7, but I started from scratch with the following:
MSI P67A-GD65 B3
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3Ghz w/ Turbo Boost
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) Superclocked
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB 1600 DDR3
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB HDD
I installed all of the parts into my new tower, checked all of the connections and booted it up for the first time and it went right to BIOS with no issues. I continued to follow the instructions in the MOBO manual and set BIOS to run the optimized defaults, save & reset. After that I put in the drivers and utilities disc which contains "Winki III" which is MSI's version of Linux, but I didn't want to install that on my computer so I opted to go right to Windows 7 (remember I have NO OS on my computer yet).
Windows 7 successfully gets to the Activation screen and when I type in my product key it says that it is invalid. I called Microsoft to find out that my product and/or product key is for an upgrade disc. When I pop the disc out I take a look at it and what do you know, they're right.
Now I cannot get anything to install on my computer, whether it's Winki III or Windows XP (Also unfortunately and upgrade disc
) or Windows 7. Even after I tried to do a custom install which is a "clean full install" according to Microsoft.
Here's where I need help. My roommate tried to help me out so we put my HDD into his computer and tried to do the clean install of Windows 7, and by his dumb luck, without entering an activation code, he go Windows 7 to work, but with his components, not mine. And now whenever it goes back into my computer I get a BIOS error on start-up that says "No Hard Disk Drive Detected" and it continues to boot up until the "Starting Windows" screen it hangs on the first red dot and that's it.
I need help, because it won't allow me to run Seagate's Disk Wizard or a DOS Boot Disk so I can update my BIOS, I can try to do a full reformat and hope for the best, but I'm out of ideas and ready to bite the bullet and buy a full install of Windows 7.
MSI P67A-GD65 B3
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3Ghz w/ Turbo Boost
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) Superclocked
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB 1600 DDR3
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB HDD
I installed all of the parts into my new tower, checked all of the connections and booted it up for the first time and it went right to BIOS with no issues. I continued to follow the instructions in the MOBO manual and set BIOS to run the optimized defaults, save & reset. After that I put in the drivers and utilities disc which contains "Winki III" which is MSI's version of Linux, but I didn't want to install that on my computer so I opted to go right to Windows 7 (remember I have NO OS on my computer yet).
Windows 7 successfully gets to the Activation screen and when I type in my product key it says that it is invalid. I called Microsoft to find out that my product and/or product key is for an upgrade disc. When I pop the disc out I take a look at it and what do you know, they're right.
Now I cannot get anything to install on my computer, whether it's Winki III or Windows XP (Also unfortunately and upgrade disc

Here's where I need help. My roommate tried to help me out so we put my HDD into his computer and tried to do the clean install of Windows 7, and by his dumb luck, without entering an activation code, he go Windows 7 to work, but with his components, not mine. And now whenever it goes back into my computer I get a BIOS error on start-up that says "No Hard Disk Drive Detected" and it continues to boot up until the "Starting Windows" screen it hangs on the first red dot and that's it.
I need help, because it won't allow me to run Seagate's Disk Wizard or a DOS Boot Disk so I can update my BIOS, I can try to do a full reformat and hope for the best, but I'm out of ideas and ready to bite the bullet and buy a full install of Windows 7.