I recently had a problem with my laptop that it would not load up. So i did a little research and found that my laptop hard drive had GONE from the error message i got.

Not a problem so far.

I then said ok ill buy a new hard drive which i did and is the extact same model as the one i had as i did not want to GET it wrong.

I then put the new hard drive in to the laptop and put my windows xp disk in cd rom drive.

This is the problem i have that the cd-rom tries to read the disk but fails and the disk does work cos i tried it on a friends so i dont know how to get windows on my hard drive.

I have tried numerous WAYS first i tried installing throught another laptop, the hdd WORKS on there but when i put it back in the broken laptop it blue screens.

I tried from usb but my laptop doesnt accept it also i have no floppy disk drive.

I dont mind spending money to fix it as long as it works.

What can i do?

P.S my laptop is a toshiba satiellete a40-151 with 30gb hard drive

Thank you in advance if you can help try unpluging your hard drive then plug it again...power it on your laptop then press del the set up bios will be prompted then look for boot priority 1st boot - CDROM 2nd boot-HARD DISK then save and exit and compter will restart... I think your system is toasted.

Get your old hard drive and try to connect it to another laptop and see if it boots. That would tell you that the old drive wasn't bad and that your laptop has gone on to the happy hunting ground in the sky.

Quote from: Kjasper91 on October 30, 2007, 07:31:35 AM

try unpluging your hard drive then plug it again...power it on your laptop then press del the set up bios will be prompted then look for boot priority 1st boot - CDROM 2nd boot-HARD DISK then save and exit and compter will restart...

I think your system is toasted.

Get your old hard drive and try to connect it to another laptop and see if it boots. That would tell you that the old drive wasn't bad and that your laptop has gone on to the happy hunting ground in the sky.

Quote from: Kjasper91 on October 30, 2007, 07:31:35 AM

try unpluging your hard drive then plug it again...power it on your laptop then press del the set up bios will be prompted then look for boot priority 1st boot - CDROM 2nd boot-HARD DISK then save and exit and compter will restart...

I dont mean to sound stupid but what will that do?