I tried booting from the USB and it worked! So for some reason my DVD drive or hard drive didn't like the 64-bit windows DVDs, but was fine with USB. Thanks for the help!
Alright, so I tried it instead with a 32-bit disk and it works. I'm puzzled though because I've had win7-64 bit on this computer before (i just lost the CD). i've burned a few 64 bit cds from my university website but none of them work. i'll see if I can find a USB big enough. I checked the...
I;m trying to install Windows 7, but instead of loading the windows disk it just says "reboot and select proper boot device" I already told the BIOS to boot from disk. Help?