OS installation problem

[curioustechy]

I have been using win7 and ubuntu 11.04 in my laptop - hp pavilion dv6 -1110ax. Win 7 crashed recently for some reasons not known and i decided to reformat the hdd completely and install fresh copies of win7 and ubuntu 12.04. so i booted from my ubuntu 11.04 dvd and formatted my hdd completely in Master Boot Record and out of the 320gb, i partitioned 90gb out from the beginning and formated that in ntfs. then i came out and booted from my win7 disk. Nothing comes apart from a blank screen with a blinking cursor. when i boot from ubuntu dvd it starts working in charm. Also i could go a few steps of installation when i inserted my old winxp disk (winxp cannot be installed in my laptop which was discussed elsewhere in the forum at length). what is the problem

 

[topgear]

most probably there's some problem with win 7 disc - try it on some other DVD drive r better try to install win 7 using a pen drive using this tool :
YUMI - Multiboot USB Creator (Windows) | USB Pen Drive Linux

 

[frankeric]

yeah bro it might b the problem of the cd and pro you cant install win xp without complete format because you you cant downgrade your os.

 

[curioustechy]

ok. thanx usb boot helped

 

[topgear]

^^ Ok .. nice to know