HDD won't boot after reinstalling

mrlippman

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Feb 5, 2014
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I had my mom's laptop that I was using to wipe an old HDD with DBAN. Once I removed that HDD after wiping it I repaced it with the HDD she was using and I get this message:

Boot device not found
Please install operating system on your hard disk.
Hard Disk - (3F0)

It was running a copy of windows 7. I reset the boot order so I'm not sure what I may have done wrong. I had removed and replaced it several times prior and had no issues. What could I have done to receive this message? This is a really old machine and HDD so there is no point in me purchasing a new copy of Windows for it, but I would like my old copy back lol. All help is greatly appreciated.