Actually, the OP stated he had formatted the C partition. Did he remove any System Reserved partition -- don't know.From his op, Mike, he said he had formatted the HD. Blank.
Sorry, yes. TypoActually, the OP stated he had formatted the C partition. Did he remove any System Reserved partition -- don't know.
But since the OP has not returned, it doesn't really make a difference.
Boot your system into the recovery partition to reinstall the original system back to factory settings. Then burn a set of recovery disks to enable a full recovery in the event you lose your system or it becomes unbootable. Then from within file explorer navigate to the Windows 10 setup file on the dvd you have burned from the ISO.
From your original post, can we confirm two things. First, since you were using Windows 7 your system is using a MBR (Legacy) install. And second, you have removed your Windows 7 installation and want to install Windows 10 as a Clean install?
Since you have the .iso file and have burned the Image to the DVD, not the actual .iso file, it should allow you to boot into it. Are you seeing any messages about hitting a key to boot to the DVD or is it showing as loading the Windows files?
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I just want to confirm that when you said you burned the ISO to a DVD that you used a program like Imgburn to do it, making the disk bootable?
Just copying the ISO to a DVD won't do it, you have to use software to create a boot DVD from the file.
http://www.imgburn.com/
Select "Write Image file to Disk".
Then direct it to the .ISO file and the disk you want it written to.
Mike
"Downloaded ISO file & burnt on DVD.
First try, I had the C drive of a laptop's hard drive formatted & tried to install Windows 10 Technical Preview from DVD to this C drive. But the DVD could not start the computer & said, "BOOTMGR is missing."
If the burn was successful, you would have initially received a pop up message on the blank screen "Press any key to boot from the DVD". If uopu did not receive the message then :
1. The burn or download was not 100% successful.
2. You forgot to initialise the computer bios to boot from the DVD.
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What he is saying is, open the bios, (you probably get a prompt on the first screen that comes up telling you how to do this.
On my computer it says "Hit Delete to enter setup") and once there look at the boot order, and see if the DVD drive is set first in the boot order.
You also need to disable "Safe Boot" while in the bios to install Windows 10 on a Windows 8 computer.
By default it is usually set that way, and if it's not it would probably just boot into Windows and not give you any error messages but check and see, but my bet is that something is wrong with the boot disk.
Not having a boot sector sounds like it wasn't created correctly.
Mike
Actually, the OP stated he had formatted the C partition. Did he remove any System Reserved partition -- don't know.
But since the OP has not returned, it doesn't really make a difference.
Sorry, yes. Typo
"I had the C drive of a laptop's hard drive formatted & tried to install Windows 10 Technical Preview from DVD to this C drive."
As you say - it seems irrelevant history now. As usual, it would have been helpful and interesting to see the outcome.