Aspire X3990 Win7 New HDD

ballapaddag
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I have an Aspire X 3990 which has a failed HDD. I have installed a new ( same size ) HDD and booting from my Win 7 x 64 installtion DVD , I see the "Windows is loading files" white line progress and then "Starting Windows" and the animated coloured logo for about 10 seconds. At that stage no disc acticivty but then suddenly a burst of HDD disc activity and the machine reboots. Currently stuck in this loop.

 

I have read about accessing the BIOS and turning off " Secure Boot" but that option is not available on my machine. The Authentication tab is not available and no mention under "Security"

 

I have mananged to format the HDD as DOS and SYS'd the drive and the machine will boot from the HDD to a Command Prompt.

Also tried removing the partiton to see if WIN 7 does not like the FAT32 file system, but still the same behaviour.

 

Would appreciate any guidance as to how to install Windows onto a new HDD on an Acer X 3990, which currently appears to be impossible. 

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