Cannot read the OS DVD, but can read the Diag CD sata disc?

Greetings,

Laptop is the famous brick of overheating creatively titled DV6416CA.

I had to format the new hard drive after the original hard drive fried. (HP says too bad with that in short).

It now sports a WD3200BVET which is sata 5400 320gigs. I had installed Windows 7 during about 6 months now.

It was great. Life was good. I was happy. My daughter, wife and mother-in-law all used to watch movies online.

Then they got a virus that has rendered useless map of wireless network and in the end, I was told by 2 different specialists to give up and reinstall. So I said OK. I'll reinstall with the same dvd that I used last time. But it was not to be.

Somehow, I can read the diag cd I have but when I insert a dvd of Vista (a real one) it will not read it. He tries, but giving up at the end I tried the DVD (the original one) and also one dvd of Windows 7 on 2 other workstation without problem.

Therefore, I can not install the OS from scratch on this laptop using the DVD player.

The BIOS is also sport all options, for example, the IDE compatibility or such.

Just the phone does not have a DVD OS...

Thanks for the help

Antoine

PS: with 3 generations of angry women, waiting for this I need all the help I can get! LOLz

Perhaps because it is the laser burnt out or defective DVD it reads cd but not dvd. Have you tried to boot from XP cd?

You could try a 4 GB USB Flash drive to create a W7 bootable Installer.

http://AgniPulse.com/2009/11/Windows-7-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/

http://freetechjournal.com/tech-space/Microsoft-Windows-7-bootable-USB-creator.html

http://windows7usbcreator.com/

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