HELP

[JackyPhilibooty]

Okay, So my Dell Optiplex 790 came in today, and i cant for the life of me get the 32bit windows 7 off and put on windows 7 64bit, i have bootable USB's (working (used rufus)), and I cannot get the new windows to install, whever i startup my computer it goes to the dell loading screen then to "intel boot agent pxe e61 media test failure" page, and i have gone into the bio, idk which to boot from UEFI or Legacy and whenever my computer starts it says press a key to start from USB and i do but then it boots windows, is there any was to clear my hdd and restart or comething? Please Help!!

[twoSalty]

is the hdd formatted?

[JackyPhilibooty]

1 minute ago, twoSalty said:

is the hdd formatted?

it already has windows on it, but the wrong windows, im sorry but i dont know what u mean, how would i check?

[twoSalty]

2 minutes ago, JackyPhilibooty said:

it already has windows on it, but the wrong windows, im sorry but i dont know what u mean, how would i check?

you have 80 posts here, watch ltt but dont know what a formatted hard drive is? a formatted harddrive means you wipe everything off of it. they usually include 32bit os because the cpu only supports 32bit. did you check the cpu support?

[JackyPhilibooty]

1 minute ago, twoSalty said:

you have 80 posts here, watch ltt but dont know what a formatted hard drive is? a formatted harddrive means you wipe everything off of it. they usually include 32bit os because the cpu only supports 32bit. did you check the cpu support?

yes its an i5 2400 and it supports it, i cant format it because i cant boot off of anything except the hdd.

[twoSalty]

1 minute ago, JackyPhilibooty said:

yes its an i5 2400 and it supports it, i cant format it because i cant boot off of anything except the hdd.

check the boot order in bios make sure usb/dvd drive is first

[JackyPhilibooty]

3 minutes ago, twoSalty said:

check the boot order in bios make sure usb/dvd drive is first

i already set it, its on legacy and usb is first then goes hdd. it goes press any key to boot from USB then i press a key and 2 seconds later it boots windows

[twoSalty]

http://www.dell.com/support/Article/au/en/aubsdt1/SLN82509/EN

[twoSalty]

1 minute ago, JackyPhilibooty said:

i already set it, its on legacy and usb is first then goes dvd. it goes press any key to boot from USB then i press a key and 2 seconds later it boots windows

that means the setup boot device is corrupt

[JackyPhilibooty]

10 minutes ago, twoSalty said:

that means the setup boot device is corrupt

okay idk what i did but i uplugged my HDD, it brought me to a scrren push f1 for this and f2 for that, no keys worked, so i spammed my keyboard and it brought me to my windows installation, i couldnt  install it onto anything because my hdd wasnt plugged in, so now im again at a loss because i lugged in and restarted and im back at square one now.

[twoSalty]

1 minute ago, JackyPhilibooty said:

okay idk what i did but i uplugged my HDD, it brought me to a scrren push f1 for this and f2 for that, no keys worked, so i spammed my keyboard and it brought me to my windows installation, i couldnt  install it onto anything because my hdd wasnt plugged in, so now im again at a loss because i lugged in and restarted and im back at square one now.

i suggest trying to get a live linux usb/disc and formatting the harddrive in gparted. kali linux comes with gparted.

[twoSalty]

Just now, twoSalty said:

i suggest trying to get a live linux usb/disc and formatting the harddrive in gparted. kali linux comes with gparted.

before you do this. you have to be really sure you want to format your harddrive risking you will ever get windows installed. it should work though because there will be nothing to boot off of except the windows install.

[JackyPhilibooty]

is there any way clear my hdd while in the os?

[twoSalty]

no because the hdd has windows on it. you cant clear your current windows installation while running windows off of that drive

[twoSalty]

 try this though