Hi I am having quiet the difficulties doing a clean install of Windows 8 onto a new hard drive. On each attempted, I recieved various stops from: cant find media (lost cd drive), cant write to registry, and mainly Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. Please note, this is a disk straight from Microsoft. I also tryed another disk and tryed Windows 10 with the same errors
I have tryed several different methods starting with a raw drive, making partitons, copying entire cd over to the hard drive. I checked the drive for errors, changing dvd drive. Nothing else other than mouse,keyboard is plugged into the system and I have also tried with and with out the primary hard drive plugged in with the same results
My system bios is set non raid, and it does not have uefi or secure boot. I believe I am either not formatting correctly or a setting in Bios isnt correct
How can I install WIndows 8 on this machine??
Any help appreciated
Thanks Rick
Ps also posted this in the desktop section as I wasn't sure which group is the correct one