Boot MGR Missing?

My gf is selling her comp that been sat under her bed for awhile now and hasnt been used for atleast a year now and shes had it awhile.
So I said ill put windows 7 on it so it will sell better, But she forgot her password to her account etc so I just put her hard drive in my comp and formatted it and put it back in hers and when I come to install Windows 7 on it said Missing Boot MGR.
Ive tryed to set the Bios to default, ive made sure im booting from cd/dvd rom.
Alls i know about her comp is that its 32-bit and only has 500mb RAM oh and it was Windows XP.

Any Idea?

Did you format to NTFS, and make sure the CD drive is the first device in the BIOS sounds like its the HDD drive is being read first and not the CD.

why are u putting win7 on 500 mb ram sys

Orford wrote:Did you format to NTFS, and make sure the CD drive is the first device in the BIOS sounds like its the HDD drive is being read first and not the CD.

whats NTFS? and yes BIOS is on boot from CD/DVD as number 1 then wen i restart and press key to boot from cd tht wt it says.

devilhawk wrote:why are u putting win7 on 500 mb ram sys

Mad-Mike wrote:So I said ill put windows 7 on it so it will sell better

U sure ur Win7 isnt an upgrade version ie needs a legitimate install of XP or Vista on the drive

[quote="Orford"]Did you format to NTFS, and make sure the CD drive is the first device in the BIOS sounds like its the HDD drive is being read first and not the CD.[/quote

fatal_error.be wrote:...

Why you celebrating that, fatal?

Its what Fatal would of said so he is agreeing with me.

yep