How to install 7 on a totally clean drive

My PC has 2 hard drives 160GB and 500GB. I cannot remember all the specs, but are more than adequate, as I have bben running 7 on the system for a while.

Due to various reasons, viruses, etc, I completely deleted both drives with DBAN. This was successfully done.

I want to install Windows 7 on the 500GB hard drive, so I unplugged the 160 GB HD.

I started the PC with the ISO Windows 7 file, but it does not get further than this:



I tried to get into the BIOS when starting up by tapping various F keys, no luck.

I used another Windows 7 CD (unregistered), does not boot the system.

I downloaded Windows 7 DVD USB tool, put the flash disk in to the "clean "PC , no luck.

What am I doing wrong? Please help

 

Sorry, as my system is down, I cannot provide you with details, but it was upgraded end of last year and has a dual processor and all the other specifications were quite good.

Steve, yes I think so, but now it is a bit late to correct, because I did a very silly thing.

I put an old Windows 98 in, the system started to boot. It gave you the option I think, to boot from either CD or hard drive, but I was too late to change it to CD.
The next moment the PC stopped and now it constantly wants to start, stop, start, stop without the screen even lighting up.

I have no idea what to do. I can burn the Windows 7 CD again, but that is not going to solve my problem?? What about taking the 500GB HD to a repair shop and ask them to load Windows 7 or even Windows 98, because if the PC runs, it will install 7 again even from the "wrongly burnt" CD.

I am just scared to take the whole PC in, as they will ask me an arm and a leg to repair it.

Please help!

 

You need to make sure the DVD or USB drive is bootable. My favorite way to install Windows for a long time now has been using USB drives, because you can install Windows 7 (or Vista, or whatever else) in 10-15 minutes. That's because flash is so much faster than any kind of optical drive.

You also need to make sure to configure the boot order part of your BIOS to where the USB drive is ahead of any hard drives so that your computer will give priority to any USB drives that you have attached at startup.

Use these instructions to make your flash drive bootable, if Microsoft's tool is not useful for you. When you're done, copy the entire contents from your Win 7 DVD to your flash drive and you're done.

A lot of people like the Windows 7 USB tool, though, so try it again using these step-by-step instructions.

Another thing you can do is "burn" your Windows 7 ISO to your USB drive, or to a DVD if you have a DVD burner for that matter, using UltraISO (it's a free program).

I hope one of these will work out for you. Let us know how you made out.