So a friend brought round a laptop for me to look at, it's an Acer Aspire 5727 with an i3 370M, 4gb of ram blah blah. All I was told is that it won't start up and others have tried fixing it before me (bad sign 
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Anyway it had been wiped already so I go ahead and start to install windows from USB, only it won't let me install to the harddrive. So I mess around for an hour, changing boot order, trying with diskpart and other things with no luck, long story short I ended up removing the DVDRW and it allowed me install windows, I put the DVDRW drive back in after I was done installing drivers etc and went to fire it up and suprise, suprise, the dvdrw is stopping it from booting again, for some reason it is bypassing the HD and trying to boot from the dvdrw :l boot order is set correctly in the bios and googling hasn't helped me so far..
Any ideas? Would a dying/dead DVDRW cause this? I have a feeling it's something else and I don't really want to tell him to buy a new DVDRW and it end up being the same.. I don't have any spare drives that fit it to test btw
EDIT: I managed to get hold of a spare DVDRW and it still does the same thing :l I noticed on the main page in the bios were it lists all the harddrives, DVDRW etc that it says no harddrive, yet in the boot order section the harddrive is listed :l
Edited by GeforceGTS - 12/21/12 at 7:37am
)Anyway it had been wiped already so I go ahead and start to install windows from USB, only it won't let me install to the harddrive. So I mess around for an hour, changing boot order, trying with diskpart and other things with no luck, long story short I ended up removing the DVDRW and it allowed me install windows, I put the DVDRW drive back in after I was done installing drivers etc and went to fire it up and suprise, suprise, the dvdrw is stopping it from booting again, for some reason it is bypassing the HD and trying to boot from the dvdrw :l boot order is set correctly in the bios and googling hasn't helped me so far..
Any ideas? Would a dying/dead DVDRW cause this? I have a feeling it's something else and I don't really want to tell him to buy a new DVDRW and it end up being the same.. I don't have any spare drives that fit it to test btw
EDIT: I managed to get hold of a spare DVDRW and it still does the same thing :l I noticed on the main page in the bios were it lists all the harddrives, DVDRW etc that it says no harddrive, yet in the boot order section the harddrive is listed :l
Edited by GeforceGTS - 12/21/12 at 7:37am
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