installing os on new hd

edited April 2009 in Science & Tech
Okay so i cleared my harddrive out turn the computer on it says no operating system found. I put the CD into the computer but it still says the same thing, is there a way to run from the cd with any commands? I set it up in the bios to boot the cdrom first but the operating system is still not showing up.. Please help

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    What kind of CD is this? Retail? Did you burn the CD?
  • edited April 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    What kind of CD is this? Retail? Did you burn the CD?

    i made it, when the computer was new to restore the computer they make u do it
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    Do you have a digital camera you could use to take a picture of your boot order in your BIOS?
  • edited April 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    Do you have a digital camera you could use to take a picture of your boot order in your BIOS?

    no but it says cd rom harddrive then floppy disk
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    Do you have another CD-ROM you could temporarily hook up to make sure your current one isn't going bad? Or another bootable CD to test in your current ROM?
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