Define something then (what did you try?)
There should be a boot menu key. Try holding F8 when the computer boots up (On one of my PCs it’s F11 so try that aswell) and you should be greeted with a nice boot list where you can select the device to boot.
mine is f12, I choose Boot CDROM from the list and it’s just doesn’t boot it loads up windows =/
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Yeah… you ‘have’ to be able to boot from the cd.
After you selected boot CD Rom, did you hit Enter repeatedly?
Is it a retail dvd, or did you burn it? It has to be burned correctly to be bootable.
go back to the bios and make the hard drive not a bootable option.
I burnt it using Power ISO then I copied the extracted files into a DVD, at any case here’s an SS of the files that are in the DVD if there’s something missing or wrong please tell me.
so basically our problem now is trying to boot up from the DVD
Come again? Do you mean you extracted the files from the .iso and then burnt those instead?!
If that’s the case then your disc will never boot since those information are not stored as usual files on the media.
ImgBurn is very handy, choose ‘Write Image File to Disc’ option then select the .iso file and you should be all set.
That’s why it won’t work… You have to copy the disk image entirely. What makes the CD bootable isn’t a file, so if you copy files with a drag-and-drop (or equivalent), it won’t work.
If you download the disc from a torrent or something, it should be a .iso, or some other disk image format. If you have an original DVD to copy from, you have to make a disc copy, and not copy the files themselves.
With PowerISO I think you can tell it to make the DVD bootable as well… If you don’t have any disk image source with you anymore.
You can probably Burn a disk image with PowerISO as well… never used that program much though.
alright thanks guys for all your support, thank god I have a backup copy of the Original image file
edit: ok I did what you guys told me and it worked great, thanks again 
U cannot update the OS from 32-bit to 64-bit, u need to do a clean installation
the only scenario where dragging files out of the iso would be recommendable is when you’re installing 7 on a PC with no CD drive (copying the files onto a bootable flash drive)
otherwise always burn using the original iso
What I don’t get though is why you would need to burn anything if its a “perfectly legal” copy as you said. Does Microsoft now distribute Windows as an internet download or something?
I got my copy (copies, even) of Windows from MSDN Academic Alliance, which is some kind of partnership between Microsoft and some universities. So yes, I download the .iso and burn them.
As for OP, I don’t know. It’s perfectly plausible to have a valid LICENSE and not have an original disc. An example would be reinstalling Windows on a PC, using the OEM license (the sticker on the case) as a fresh install (i.e. not using/not having a recovery partition).
he needs to burn it because you cannot simply upgrade winXP to win7. He has to do a clean/fresh/brand new install of windows7 for it to work, therefore he needs it on a disk, or a bootable jump drive.
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you need a disc either way unless you’re installing from a network, the point i was trying to make was that he should have the disc and not have to burn an ISO if its legal
but yeah i forgot about MSDN subscriptions, my bad
yeah i have installed a lot of windowses by just downloading an illegal torrent and use the key on the sticker…
what if you accidentally download a version where the key entering sequence is completely taken out of the installation process?
i forgot to mention that i usually take the ones that says untouched 
and the windows 7 ive been using uses a loader
I prefer to rip the windows 7 install myself so I can add custom drivers, remove microsoft built in graphics drivers, add a valid CD key, all the updates, custom uxtheme patch built in with a few skins and all the useless services like action center and indexing disabled out of the box.
that sounds fun
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