hard drive help

i installed a new hard drive in my laptop because my old one failed. i was able to install the software that came with the laptop, bt days later i started having problems. at first it was operating system not found. when i tried to reinstall the software it would tell me that the new har drive is not partitioned, i would hit yes do it and an error would occur. i would do this several times and nothing. i would try it again later and it would work. then i would have little problems. so i try to reboot, OPERATING SYSTEM NO FOUND. i would reinstall and i need to partition. ERROR. NO FIXED DISK. i need help. im going nuts!!!

 

i had a 15gb. i installed a 60gb western digital HD.

 

wow, that would be a lot of things. first thing i would do is pull the hard drive from the lappy and see how stable it is with a desktop. you might not have that option, however.

are you using a windows install disc or some kind of restore discs to install stuff on the computer?

 

i am using recovery discs that came with the laptop which has windows ME and i have the windows XP update disc. i took the laptop back apart and made sure everything was properly connected and double-triple checked. it actually started to properly work, but i dont know how long will work for, hopefully for a long time. now checking it with a desktop, i dont know how to do that, kind of new to all of this. i just recently baught the HD bout 2 weeks ago.

 

are you trying to install ME on the laptop with the recovery discs, then do an upgrade, or have you found a way to verify the ME discs and go straight to the upgrade? (i really can't remember if you can even do that).

nevertheless, you can't use the recovery discs now; you've changed hardware settings, making those discs useless. you need a full version, a regular copy of windows, to go on.

 

i have a full version of win98. if i install that and then do the upgrade it should work better. what about all the other devices will they still work.

 

considering it's a laptop and everything's integrated, i think it would work fine. as soon as you've loaded Win98, move on to XP with all your peripherals disconnected. you can get driver updates and whatnot after the upgrade.

 

it just crashed on me and i'm trying to install it again but it wont let me do it. after a few tries, its letting me do it. i dont know what else to do.