Unable to boot Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade DVD from purchased media or USB thumb drive
I purchased the upgrade DVD for Windows 7 Home Premium in order to upgrade my Windows XP machine. I really want to do a clean install as my machine has been running XP for a long time and there is a lot of cruft that I don't want to carry along. When I attempt to boot from the DVD I get an "error code 5". I also have a Windows Vista SP1 DVD which boots just fine so I assume that there are no problems with my DVD drive (Sony DVD-RW drive) or my BIOS (VIA K8M800 running AMI BIOS 3.7 which is the latest). I have tried all different booting options to attempt to get the DVD to start the install.
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