Follow Windows Reinstallation Guide/A Clean Install of Windows 7: [URL] The part you are stuck on is Step 6, preparing the SATA drivers and Step 8 loading them during the Windows install. Note I recommend use of a Digital River .iso which will be more up to date installation media and the use of the Activation and Backup Recovery Program for product activation. Follow Step 2 (using the files at the bottom) and Step 11b for product activation. This is an unofficial solution but works very well. You can of course attempt to call Dell Technical Support and request a Dell Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 Reinstallation DVD.
First off apologies if this has been answered recently, I have spent the last 2 days on this problem and promise I have searched and googled til my fingers bleed. Basically the situation is as follows: - PC tells me hard drive is failing on my Studio XPS 8000 - I buy new hard drive, then take out old one and install new one - Put in operating system disc that came with PC, get up to bit where I can click on install to start installing Windows 7 on new drive - However it says there are no device drivers on disc, I put in drivers and utilities disc (that also came with PC) but still no device drivers, even though its says on disc that they are contained on it - Put back in old drive and try to make system recovery disc - try to use USB flash drive but this is not recognised, so buy dvdr discs and get past initializing and then it starts to collect files, but on numerous tries doesn't get past 25% complete, let alone start writing them onto the disc. - I uninstall Dell Datasafe Local Backup and reinstall but PC continues to freeze at "25% collecting files" So what can I do, considering my warranty has ended? All I need to do is install my already purchased copy of WIndows 7 onto my already purchased new hard drive, but I'm stumped at this point. Advanced thanks for any help:) Oh.. PS. - I'm in the UK so I don't think I can send away for backup discs, even if warranty expiration isn't an issue.
Can't reinstall Windows 7 to new hard drive