I don't know how to make a CD of Linux to put on a new HD

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I don't know much about computers, but I am trying my best to get this working for my granddaughter. I got this laptop for her and I was told there was a new 500 gb HDD just installed, but no OS and that I could just call Dell for new CDs of Vista, which is what came on it originally.
Not True! Dell will only talk to the person that the computer is registered to, and it didn't matter that I talked to 12 different people. The person I got it from has no idea who that is. It's 8 years old and who could know how many people have owned it. There is no way to recover, repair or restore the OS. It is not on this computer!
My brother said Linux was easy to use and that my granddaughter should have no problem using it. So I went into the BIOS on the Dell and changed the booting to cd/dvd and I downloaded Linux to a CD on my computer, that I made as a bootable like a usb and tried to get it to boot on the Dell but it said, "No bootable device" so I don't know what to do now.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 



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