Need help with formatting a computer. Please, please, please.

Stupid question but have you tried booting off other CDs or DVDs?
 
It must be boot sequence. When you boot from optical media first and there is no OS on the drive it will automatically start the install without you needing to "hit any key to boot from dvd rom".

Sort out the boot sequence and it will be fine.
 
JUGGY said:
It must be boot sequence. When you boot from optical media first and there is no OS on the drive it will automatically start the install without you needing to "hit any key to boot from dvd rom".

Sort out the boot sequence and it will be fine.
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As I've said, I've checked the Boot sequence. Moved the sequence in every possible combination. Still nothing.
 
Ja, I would go with updating the BIOS if you can.

BTW, whereabouts are you in Joburg? Do you wanna bring your PC over to my house and we will get it working?
 
Garyvdh said:
Ja, I would go with updating the BIOS if you can.

BTW, whereabouts are you in Joburg? Do you wanna bring your PC over to my house and we will get it working?
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Was gonna suggest him the same thing on my side. Doesn't sound like this will come right otherwise
 
out of interest...whenever you get it working what precautions are in place to stop you getting another virus? firewall, AV software?
 
Garyvdh said:
Ja, I would go with updating the BIOS if you can.

BTW, whereabouts are you in Joburg? Do you wanna bring your PC over to my house and we will get it working?
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I'm going to try update the BIOS today. I'm actually not far from Alberton. We'll see;)
 
noswal said:
out of interest...whenever you get it working what precautions are in place to stop you getting another virus? firewall, AV software?
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I use AVG but from now on I'm going to use something a little better, thinking of getting kaspersky.
 
Give Avira a go. Install the free version and do the reg hack to stop the occasional popups. I find it to be the best amongst the free AVs.
 
May sound like a stupid suggestion, but when you installed your new HDD did you not perhaps unplug the DVD drive accidentally whilst working in the case? I have seen it before whereby the cable appears plugged in, but is not properly seated and dislodged just slightly.

Hope you come right
 
Garyvdh said:
I'm also in Alberton. We can team up and nail this thing! :p
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Team Alberton, ASSEMBLE! *add superhero jingle here* :p

I was actually just thinking something here, I had an old 250gb slim seagate that absolutely refused to allow any OS to be installed. It worked and still is working perfectly but would never ever show up whilst running a new installation of windows.

If, at the end of the day, the situation is such as I had above. Why not connect the old hdd to another pc and transfer anything you want saved onto another drive, and then just run a clean installation on that drive and use the 1TB purely for data/backups. That is if you can get that far with installing windows that you can select the drive. I also have an external dvd writer in case it might be the writer which you say it isn't

I made the mistake of using a 1TB hdd as my OS drive and in all fairness it's a waste. Reason being I constantly have at least 350gb free (even though I store about 450gb of music on it) because I don't store any vital things on my C drive due to it being most likely to crash/get a virus.
 
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rudirautenbach said:
May sound like a stupid suggestion, but when you installed your new HDD did you not perhaps unplug the DVD drive accidentally whilst working in the case? I have seen it before whereby the cable appears plugged in, but is not properly seated and dislodged just slightly.

Hope you come right
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Not a stupid question, but I did check before I started the PC to make sure everything is OK. I always do it.
 
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