i need some serious help with this, my brothers laptop broke (awhile i ago i believe), its a little over 3 years old. (its an HP)
heres the problem:
i turned it on and the windows xp loading screen came up but then the blue screen flashed really quick and the laptop turned off.
so i figured i would just do a fresh install of xp, so i find my windows disk and proceed to install windows, when windows asks me if i want to do a regular install or a repair install, i select regular (or whatever it says) but then it says that windows xp cant find any hard disks....so then assumed that it was the hard drive, so i just bought a new one, installed it and proceeded with the xp install, same thing happened, is it the windows xp or the hard drive or something else?
i really need the solution to this problem today..>(i have to give it to my brother before he goes away tonight)
another note: when the first hard drive was still installed i went into the BIOS and ran a HDD self test and it failed in about ten seconds (10%), i did the same thing with the new hard drive and it passed the first step (the second step is still currently running)
any help will be outstanding, thanks.
also, i wasnt sure if this belonged in this category or windows xp, sorry if its in the wrong one,
i will google this after i post this....
heres the problem:
i turned it on and the windows xp loading screen came up but then the blue screen flashed really quick and the laptop turned off.
so i figured i would just do a fresh install of xp, so i find my windows disk and proceed to install windows, when windows asks me if i want to do a regular install or a repair install, i select regular (or whatever it says) but then it says that windows xp cant find any hard disks....so then assumed that it was the hard drive, so i just bought a new one, installed it and proceeded with the xp install, same thing happened, is it the windows xp or the hard drive or something else?
i really need the solution to this problem today..>(i have to give it to my brother before he goes away tonight)
another note: when the first hard drive was still installed i went into the BIOS and ran a HDD self test and it failed in about ten seconds (10%), i did the same thing with the new hard drive and it passed the first step (the second step is still currently running)
any help will be outstanding, thanks.
also, i wasnt sure if this belonged in this category or windows xp, sorry if its in the wrong one,
i will google this after i post this....