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Installing windows 7 issue

Stryda

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Posted February 18, 2012 at 1:06AM

Hello, I am trying to install windows 7 onto an old computer for my gf. The old computer has no hard drive though, so I have used my computer (which already has windows 7 loaded onto it) and hooked up a newly formatted Hard Drive to my computer, and installed a new copy of windows 7 to it. I then took out this hard drive and put it into my gf's computer, however when I go to turn it on, it states "Verifying DMI pool data......BOOTMGR is missing...Press Ctrl+ALT+DEL to restart" Is there a way to fix this? Any help greatly appreciated!!!

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difarn

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Posted February 18, 2012 at 7:41AM

It maybe that you need to go into Advanced BIOS settings to make sure that your CD drive is being recognised as the one to boot from.

Scroll all the way down to see all the possible boot devices and choose your cd device as the first drive.

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markd71

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Posted February 18, 2012 at 10:34AM

You really didn't expect that to work ? The bootmgr is totally different on your pc to what it is on your gf's . Put the hhd into the old pc and install W7 on it

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lotvic

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Posted February 20, 2012 at 2:16PM

I totally agree with markd71. You will have to start again and do it properly. As it is an old pc I hope you have checked that the other hardware will be able to support W7.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements

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adamstuart07

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Posted March 9, 2012 at 10:01AM

Friend What are you doing friend is not possible you installing window 7 in you computer and try to run in the other computer my friend when you install any operating system computer then the file take a place in the hard drive but friend its also create reference file in the computer memory in which it's being install.which is very impotent for running your computer operating system.if you really wanna upgrade to windows 7 then you have to one thing put your hard drive into the your girl friend computer and do format and then install the windows 7 in it now..

And i sure now it work completely fine....

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Stryda

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Posted March 9, 2012 at 10:28AM

thank you very much for the responses guys! Got it working the way you said, much appreciated!

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