Windows 7 Pro will not install on iMac after HD replacement.

I have a late 2009 iMac on which I have OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and ran Windows 7 Professional in Bootcamp. My iMac wound up having a defective hard drive which was just replaced last week under warranty. The problem is now I am unable to install Windows 7 in Bootcamp. I use the Bootcamp assist to partition the HD, it goes through the motions of installing Windoes 7 but at a certain point after 2 reboots and just before it would say Windows is setting up your computer for first use the screen goes black and nothing happens. The iMac is still turned on because if I hold the power button down I hear it shut off. When I turn it back on I can see that Windows was not fully installed.I tried to see what it says running in safe mode, and then I can see that it wants to continue setting Windows up but I get a message that Windows cannot be installed in Safe Mode, and I should reboot but then I get the black screen again. I've tried to repair the installation but to no avail. I've done this using both 32 bit and 64 bit with full disc of Windows 7 Professional but neither work.
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong and what I can do to rectify this problem? Thanks in advance for any help.

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I hope you don't mind me asking this question for Jack the Newbie.
You say i have to use a Windows XP-Pro Install-CD that includes SP2 as well as the JMicron driver for the JMicron IDE-Port which i have my Optical Drive connected to.I know this is telling me how to fix my problem, but what i would also like to know is WHY do i have to install it with SP2 & the JMicron driver like this on my P965 when it installed on my old pc with just the XP-Pro Install-CD.
Your Windows Installation CD should be as up to date as possible, especially for newer hardware. SP1 is from 2002, SP2 was released in 2004. Neither SP1 nor SP2 install CDs provide the proper drivers for the JMicron chipset used on your mainboard. I cannot give a detailed list about the differences between SP1 and SP2. I just know, that there are a lot of problems when people do not use SP2 on Intel 975/965 Chipset-boards which where released in 2006.
When you say that your installation works fine on your old PC I believe you. It worked on my old Laptop too. However I was not able to install XP Pro on my 975X-board without SP2 at all until I upgraded my Installation CD.
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Garfield,
I had exactly the same problem--because I had my optical drive hooked up to a Promise IDE controller, rather than to a mobo IDE connection. Turns out the Promise will read and write the optical drives OK, just won't boot from them properly. And, somehow, that affects Windows Setup.
I don't know anything about the JMicron and the need for SP2. But, as you can see from my sig, I'm using XP Pro SP1, and once I moved my NEC 3500 back to the mobo IDE (as secondary behind my IDE hard disk) everything worked like a champ.
Just my $.02.
Stahlwird
To relate Garfields problem with your solution is a mistake. Your board does not use any JMicron hardware, has NVidia chipset instead of Intel and an AMD CPU. Your are talking about a totally different Setup here.

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