I have an HP g60, about 6 years old. It is now my backup laptop. Storm the other night caused a power surge, and even though its plugged into a surge protector, it wouldn't re-boot. The hard drive has been acting up anyway. But now I got Blue Screen. Kept trying to reboot, but it just wouldn't. BIOS Utility disk check won't run on the drive.
I took the drive out and hooked it up to my other computer which has windows 7. It recognized problems with the drive immediately and went about repairing it. After that, I could access everything no problem. So I put it back in the HP, but it still wouldn't boot.
I DL'd a Vista ISO image online, intending to use my own key after reinstall. Made a bootable DVD. I reformatted the hard drive, which it allowed me to do successfully.
Problem is I'm at the stage of selecting where I want to install windows, and I select Disk 0 Partition 1, which again is reformatted, and is showing 223 GB free. It gives me the message "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation."
Why am I getting this message?
I also want to point out that the sticker with the key on the bottom of the laptop is NOT the same key it last used. I had a hard drive failure under warranty, and HP sent a new Hard Drive, so I was able to harvest the key off the hard drive using ProduKey when I had it hooked up to my main laptop. But at the first installation page, when it asks for the key, I input the key and it said it could not validate the key. I decided I would go ahead and install and then try to input the key later.
But any idea why it wouldn't recognize the key as being valid on that hard drive?
Of course, now that I've reformatted the drive, it won't be on the drive anymore, so where does that leave me?
I took the drive out and hooked it up to my other computer which has windows 7. It recognized problems with the drive immediately and went about repairing it. After that, I could access everything no problem. So I put it back in the HP, but it still wouldn't boot.
I DL'd a Vista ISO image online, intending to use my own key after reinstall. Made a bootable DVD. I reformatted the hard drive, which it allowed me to do successfully.
Problem is I'm at the stage of selecting where I want to install windows, and I select Disk 0 Partition 1, which again is reformatted, and is showing 223 GB free. It gives me the message "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation."
Why am I getting this message?
I also want to point out that the sticker with the key on the bottom of the laptop is NOT the same key it last used. I had a hard drive failure under warranty, and HP sent a new Hard Drive, so I was able to harvest the key off the hard drive using ProduKey when I had it hooked up to my main laptop. But at the first installation page, when it asks for the key, I input the key and it said it could not validate the key. I decided I would go ahead and install and then try to input the key later.
But any idea why it wouldn't recognize the key as being valid on that hard drive?
Of course, now that I've reformatted the drive, it won't be on the drive anymore, so where does that leave me?
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