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      04-15-2010
I have a upgrade Win 7 disc. Can I use it to do a custom install on a new hard drive?
 
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      04-15-2010
I have done this with three of my PCs. No prior OS was required on the system.
 
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O.K. I just switched my hard drive, which doesn't have anything on it. And the screen came up and said " Invalid Partition Table " Any idea what that means?
 
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      04-15-2010
Could be your new HDD is not formatted. You might need to format it, probably NTFS would be best and give it a volume label.

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Set your DVD drive to be the first boot device in the BIOS. Put in the install disc and boot up.

You'll see a prompt which says: Press any key to boot from DVD or CD

Do that within 4 seconds and the install will begin. Then later during the install you can partition and format the hard drive.
 
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O.K. Thank you. That did it..
 
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