ady wrote:
I don't get it.
Whether you wipe out your HDD or not, I don't understand StopSpazzing's suggestion.
If you cannot boot this system with a DVD, then Windows Seven cannot be installed by booting from its own DVD.
I am not so sure that this system is a match for Win7, unless you have additional resources (such as RAM, enough HDD space,...).
In any case, if this system can boot from USB, you could build a USB flash drive so to install Win7 from it and use the resulting USB drive to boot this system just once and install Win7 from it onto the internal IDE HDD, optionally having a "clean" HDD.
Or, instead of a USB drive, you could, perhaps, use the internal drive for the same purpose.
Whether you wipe out your HDD or not, I don't understand StopSpazzing's suggestion.
If you cannot boot this system with a DVD, then Windows Seven cannot be installed by booting from its own DVD.
I am not so sure that this system is a match for Win7, unless you have additional resources (such as RAM, enough HDD space,...).
In any case, if this system can boot from USB, you could build a USB flash drive so to install Win7 from it and use the resulting USB drive to boot this system just once and install Win7 from it onto the internal IDE HDD, optionally having a "clean" HDD.
Or, instead of a USB drive, you could, perhaps, use the internal drive for the same purpose.
He has to have it wiped to do a full installation not an upgrade, hence my answer. Only thing I messed up with should have suggested was to put the dvd of Win7 on USB Flash Drive and install using it if computer again, as I already stated, supported it.
Drivers are required if using a separate controller attached to a riser slot of some sort. So to fix my response you may wipe the drive with UBCD, then use another means to install win7 into the computer, but as was suggested, you best bet with such an old computer would be to use alternative OS's, such as Linux.