New Hard Drive boots me straight to BIOS

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theoldreliable

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Hi. My computer was recently running really slow. The Disk space was being used at 100% even thought the tasks were running at .1 mb/s, so I brought it in to a local computer helper and he told me that my hard drive was going bad, so I went to Best Buy and got the WD Blue 1 Tb hard drive to put into my ASUS ROG laptop

old Hard Drive = Toshiba 1 Tb hard drive -- Model = MQ01ABD100
new Hard Drive = WD Blue 1 Tb hard drive -- Model = WDBMYH0010BNC-NRSN

And I'm not computer savy, so I'm not sure how to tell you what I have
I know I have the ASUS Republic of Gamers laptop with an i7 processor and 960 M Nvidia Geforce grpahic hard
 
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D_Know_WD
Hi there theoldreliable,

Well, I would agree with the other guys. You need to connect the drive and perform a clean OS installation.
The drive is recognized by BIOS right? In case it is not, you can reseat it.
Do you have an OS CD? If you don't really have one, you may need to contact the laptop's manufacturer Support.

If you don't feel confident about doing this, you can just take it to the repair shop.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
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Yoann Teodosieff

Yoann Teodosieff

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Probably not installed right. Try putting a bootable device (windows disk/windows stick) in it to see if it will boot to the device. If it does then the BIOS has no device to boot to which would mean that you have not inserted the Hard disk properly into the sata port on the motherboard of the laptop or that the HDD simply failed.

Does the motherboard recognise the new HDD as device to which you can boot to? Is it even recognised in BIOS?
 
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boosted1g

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Yes,

The new drive is empty, meaning there is no files, no windows OS, not even a partition.

You will have to reinstall windows on your laptop and all your programs.
You will need to download/obtain a copy of windows to install to your laptop as the recovery on your dead head drive is not going to be of much help.
 
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D_Know_WD

D_Know_WD

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Hi there theoldreliable,

Well, I would agree with the other guys. You need to connect the drive and perform a clean OS installation.
The drive is recognized by BIOS right? In case it is not, you can reseat it.
Do you have an OS CD? If you don't really have one, you may need to contact the laptop's manufacturer Support.

If you don't feel confident about doing this, you can just take it to the repair shop.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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