Okay now lets see what you people really know. I have a Gateway laptop. I am formatting the hard drive and doing a clean install of windows 7. Please read this whole post so you do not reply with things that I have already tried. I tried using F12 and I have picked all 3 choices which are HDD, CD, and Networking. None of them boot to CD. They all just make the PC start normally. I have changed the boot order to every different combination I could think of with CD on top and HDD on bottom and everywhere in between. I purchased my Windows 7 Home Premium disk off of ebay. I thought it could be bad but it boots right up in my dell. I then thought the CD drive was bad in the Gateway so I installed Windows 7 while using the operating system and at this point I would have been set to go but I cannot format the C drive therefor it only told me that my CD drive should be good. I then tried another disk when trying to boot (Windows Vista 32bit) and it did not work any better. I called Microsoft 2 times and they went through a few things but said contact Gateway and to contact gateway I have to be a millionaire because they are ridiculous when it comes to prices. The computer is a Gateway NV57H58u with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I also tried using an SD card through the USB boot options and nothing happened. I tried using F10 to choose boot options and it does not give any options. I installed 2 different versions of BIOS thinking mine was defective and absolutely nothing helped. If you have any suggestions please let me know and if you have any questions just comment on here. Thank you very much.
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