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when my new PC arrives it will have no OS installed. So as long as in the BIOS the primary boot drive is set as a CD drive will it just read the windows 7 disk? (thus creating a partition and installing windows?)

been such a long time since Ive done this i cant remember  :o
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#2
to be fair, the CD just has to be in the list, not necessarily first.

The install process will prompt you for the partitions you want (it will usually make a suggestion though).
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(10-01-12, 03:18 PM)phil on a fazer link Wrote: when my new PC arrives it will have no OS installed. So as long as in the BIOS the primary boot drive is set as a CD drive will it just read the windows 7 disk? (thus creating a partition and installing windows?)

been such a long time since Ive done this i cant remember  :o

Yes it will. If CD drive is the first boot choice in BIOS and if Win7 disk is a bootable one (and it is), you will have no problems. Hope you have a nice graphic card as well for these bad winter days. Smile
Most things done in a hurry need to be done again - patiently.
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#4
Did this last week for first time since XP. Mine refused to boot from the DVD no matter what so I had to put windows on a USB stick and tell the bios to boot from there. Worked fine then.
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#5
Last did it a couple of years ago.

Hope you can spare several hours on it :lol
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#6
NTFS file format....yeah? (windows 7 on 500GB Sata II HD)
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#7
Yes, NTFS.
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