I have bought a new hard drive for my 'Medion' laptop. I put the new hard drive into the laptop, went into fdisk and partitioned the drive so I could put the recovery files into d: drive and then let the laptop program its self with the support disc. When I STARTED the laptop to program itself it start to communicate to me in German, it was using English before the new drive, I have tried to change it back to English, but every thing I try fails to work. Does anybody know whats wrong here, I would be grateful for any ideas. Thankyou. Colo.Doesn't make sense....HDD's are blank and you do NOT need the software that came with it...
Boot to your Windows CD...REMOVE the existing partition and continue with the install...
It will be automatically re-created.I just re-read your Post....the Recovery partition may be at faullt here....
Where exactly is this laptop from and how long have you had it ? ?

If need be you can borrow an MS Windows CD and do a clean install...perfectly legal...but the version and Service Packs need to match what was originally on the laptop.
You will have to re-register of course.My laptop is a Medion MM2190, It is a Windows Vista,(maybe I should have mentioned this at the start), the hard drive is 120gb, it is about three/four years old, I bought the laptop from Woolies....... Colo...Thankyou.Well, I removed the said partition and restarted the laptop with the recovery disc in, and of it went and is now working, Many thanks for your advice patio, Thankyou...Colo.... EXCELLENT....PRETTY STRANGE how that happened...