Need some help with a Hard drive

[craftsman1]

:wave: I was told since I couldn't get this computer to do anything that the HD was bad. So with them on sale I bought one which was and IDE and installed it. No Problem. Now it say's there's no software on my hard drive / there's no software on any device's and stops there. (which is good because if it was to say anymore I just might throw it out the window). I've tryed the reboot cd that came with the system which is ME, but nothing......everyone said that all I had to do was buy a new one and put the cd into it....thats if..........(my foot)........anyone that could help me out here.....PLEASEEEEEEEEEE.....my wife is dieing to play her games...:thrilled:

[craftsman1]

oh i'll be around here if you can think of anything........im not good at formatting or partationing......but i'll give it a try.....I use to make love to the wife and that broke, but I still try.......well the dr. broke it.....lol

[Tom]

Howdy craftsman1,

Welcome to CTH. Try not to post twice for the same issue please. Causes confusion as different suggestions overlap.


Saw the other post Here (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109937), and reviewing the info there and here, I am guessing:

1 - Your hard drive went bad.
2 - You replaced it with a new one.
3 - You are trying to do a new install on that drive with a recovery disk.

If that is correct, the answer is that you can't do an install with the recovery disk, and will need to purchase a original Windows (not necessarily ME) cd to get up and running again.

Post back corrections to my guessing and we'll move on from there.

[craftsman1]

Well Thanks for answering me back Jintan, Sorry for posting this message twice but as you can see I thought that by posting everything that was shown on the computer might help ( as far as the 2nd message ) I didn't get the other messages until I tryed some other way's of fixing this thing........But the answer to your questions are Yes....Yes...and Yes......But as far as getting a new windows cd....well.....The guy I took this too had told me that the hard drive was bad and I needed to replace it ( which I did ) and then just install the recovery cd and let it run.......and well that's where I am now........I've looked all around this place for a cd that might say " Windows Me. installation disk " or something in that nature, but can't find it, So I was thinking that this recovery cd is the one that I was looking for........Well to make a long story short I took the PC to that guy and l'm letting him fix it....and I hope he has the correct stuff to get it up and running.......I do have this laptop here with XP on it but have been told that I can't put these install cd's in that computer....said it just won't work because I have to have the goodies off the other disk installed first....If that makes any sense.......But thanks once again for your help.....I'll let you know how I make out......Oh ya ...that fella told me that if he can't get it fixed that he would try to make sure that at least the C drive would boot up for me........Now I'm really lost......What good will that be ? Man am I lost....LOL.......thanks again

[Tweaker]

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