Yay my hard drive

[Bootsiuv]

MBR is ok, check if you can force install. I have MBR on my system harddrive (Linux and Win8.1) and it works fine.

Force installing Windows 8.1 appears possible. Your dvd is booting up in the wrong disk format, likely UEFI. You have to go into BIOS and change the boot mode from UEFI (or Legacy- IDE), to AHCI.


DISCLAIMER: Screwing with BIOS when you don't know what your doing could cause a whole range of other issues. You CAN essentially break your computer.

Be careful is all I can say. Go to Tom's Hardware and do some research first if you decide to start changing BIOS.

How much is HDD worth? If it's a small 7500 SATA, consider replacing it instead. 10500 SATA are pretty cheap these days. If it's some 4 tb SSD, fixing it is probably a better bet.

Remember, you don't know why your OS died. HDD going bad is possible. You've got some choices. Any one of them could bite u in the ass though. Be careful.

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