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Still tring to install Home o/s

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Still can't get the o/s to install or installation cd to run. I went to the store where I bought the hd and the tech guy said the hd and wd installation cd were ok so he concluded that the dvd burner must be bad. I bought a new dvd burner and installed it, but it made no difference. I also installed new ide or ied whatever they're called cables and a new little dvd burner cable, but these made no difference either. I tried the dvd burner set as the master and hd set as the slave and at the neutral setting but this did not help either. I also tried the installations with the dvd burner and hd connected to separate ied cables. I will check all the connections again. The dvd drive is detected by the bios, and I am booting from the dvd burner. What else should I check?
 
XP Home or Vista Home?
Where, exactly is your install failing?
Is the Install CD/DVD starting up?
Are there error messages?
Are the hard drive and the DVD player identified correctly in the BIOS screens at bootup?
 
I've seen this before.

Try this.....use a disk that you know you can boot from. Like a memtest+ CD

Boot to that disk. Now restart the machine ( DO NOT TURN IT OFF)

Take out the memtest CD and put in the HOME OS CD/DVD

Use Cntrl alt delete if you have to. (DO NOT TOUCH THE POWER BUTTON)

It should work.

The problem is sometimes, some BIOSs interact with some DVD players so that they will not boot from windows disks. I usually see this on machines with DVD SATA drives and RAID arrays all on the Intel southbridge Adaptor
 
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