I'm sorry if this is a duplicate post, but honestly, I did Search for "Code 5" and found nothing.
I have a HD on an eight year old desktop PC that had an early beta version of Win-7 on it.
That old version has already expired.
I wanted to boot up with my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD and just do an...
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Due to getting a CODE 5 error when trying to boot from a known good DVD, is there any way I can boot the PC into a DOS type environment and then run setup from the DVD? PC reads the DVD fine but won't boot from it! I tried being crafty by
booting from an XP disk, going to the recovery console...
While trying to figure the Code 5 error I have on one PC, I'm trying to install on another. All goes fine until I get the partition/disk to choose. I've only got a single disk in and I have a 40Gb partition spare on it which I select.
When I press Next I get this message -
Setup was unable to...
Trying to install W7 on a PC running Vista. When I try to boot from the DVD I get the message CDROM cannot boot Code 5. Thinking the media must be bad I tried it on another PC and it boots fine.
I tried a Vista DVD in the original (failing) PC and it boots fine?
Any ideas please?
Should have...