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DVD Drives won't read Windows 7 Install DVD
Spoom182
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I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a new hard drive. Strangely, my DVD drives (yes, they are DVD drives, not just CD drives) will read only my old Windows XP install disc - and it'll do it flawlessly. However, the Windows 7 disc will not run at all. I keep getting told that there's no valid media in the disc drive. I've commanded my computer to only boot from CD drives, and it still thinks there's nothing there. I've checked all the connections, the drives are both powered on and connected to the motherboard. Any ideas?
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You dont have another computer to test it in?
Might just be a bad disk, try throwing a few other disks in the computer if you dont have another one to test the Win7 disk in.
Edit: And I remember it being kind of tough to get my DVD drives to read the disc before. I also remember them working without me knowing what fixed them, so even though I've had this problem in the past, they mysteriously got fixed and I still don't know what to do about it.
if that fails, go buy a new dvd drive