I have a Dell Inspiron laptop which I just replaced the hard drive in. I inserted the disk and changed BIOS to boot from cd/dvd first. It comes up with a prompt saying that "Your CD/DVD drive during this boot cycle is f:", and then will not let me go any further until I put in a file name or command, and I have no clue what to put in there. Any help would be appreciated.
Installed new hard drive, how to install OS from cd?
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lainers90
, Apr 22 2014 11:41 PM
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Posted 23 April 2014 - 02:35 AM
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Hi Lainers 
Some questions:
- Which was the Operating System installed before on the machine?
- What is the OS you are trying to install? and where did you get the install DVD?
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Posted 24 April 2014 - 05:19 PM
lainers90
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Windows 7 for both, and the cd came with my computer
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Posted 25 April 2014 - 04:48 AM
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Windows 7 for both, and the cd came with my computer
Any chance of uploading a image showing the prompt you got?
Did you check the BIOS to see if the Hard Disk is properly recognized? In some machines you can see the model and/or size of the Hard Drive.
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