Worked on my laptop for anyone interested, it was a Seagate hard drive. So if you happen to get one in the future and use it for the same purpose, PowerISO works. Time to finally install an OS on my PC
sometimes you gotta turn off uefi or tell sata to clear off in bios when installing some older o/s. Then renable them with drivers later or install can crash.
Unfortunately, I'm having a bit of trouble with my USB keyboard. It doesn't turn on until the start up is done and I can't access the bios to change boot order. I've ordered a USB to PS/2 adapter for my keyboard, just hope that works.
for anyone interested, it was a Seagate hard drive. So if you happen to get one in the future and use it for the same purpose, PowerISO works. Time to finally install an OS on my PC