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IAMDEATH

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Hey guys, my friend used DBAN to completely wipe his HDD and this, of course, got rid of his Windows 7 OS. Now him and myself thought he would be able to reinstall Vista on there after using this, however, this was not the case. We kept getting the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". Now we know that the boot priority is in the correct order: 1. Disk 2. HDD. And we know that the Vista installation disk works because he's used it before. What could the problem be?

Thanks for all help.
IAMDEATH
 
is #1 DISK as in floppy disk or Hard disk... it should be CD ROM or Optical drive or something to that nature.
 
Right, I've now gone to his house with my Ubuntu disk, and that appears to be working, so it seems that the problem lies with the vista disk :/
 
is it a system restore disk? sometimes they need a restore partition on the hard drive to boot from first if you blew away that partition you might need to get your hands on an actual copy of vista.
 
It's definitely set to first boot order because I just installed Ubuntu on it,however he wants Windows, so I shall try making a copy.
 
Not my computer my friend, I did ask him that, and apparently it wasn't a genuine version. And the Vista CD has worked in there before, so why wouldn't it now?
 
Machine is a home-build? I have seen this problem with HP/Compaq, is why I ask.

Try downloading SystemRescueCD_1.3.5 and type
PHP: 
gparted
in the yellow-colored terminal box that appears, after hitting default (Enter) about four times, to begin partitioning.

Create a small ~200MB partition to NTFS then a second one labeled C:\ of most of the hard drive or 40GB minimum formatted to NTFS, leaving the remainder unallocated (enough for a linux / partition and an extended one for the /home and swap), as a suggestion, and then try reinstalling.
 
pane-free said:
Machine is a home-build? I have seen this problem with HP/Compaq, is why I ask.

Try downloading SystemRescueCD_1.3.5 and type
PHP: 
gparted
in the yellow-colored terminal box that appears, after hitting default (Enter) about four times, to begin partitioning.

Create a small ~200MB partition to NTFS then a second one labeled C:\ of most of the hard drive or 40GB minimum formatted to NTFS, leaving the remainder unallocated (enough for a linux / partition and an extended one for the /home and swap), as a suggestion, and then try reinstalling.
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Yes, we built it together about a year ago. The problem I am having now is that wehave burnt Vista to disk (slowest speed, verified it etc.) and we get to the installation screen, where it tells us it can't locate the file D:\Sources\Instal.wim. Well I checked and it's definitely on the disk, and the disk is clean and scratch free. So I then got my hands on a relatives Windows 7 disk. Again we get to the installation screen and it says "No CD/DVD driver". I don't know what he's done to this computer but it is in the brown stuff...
 
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