Laptop HD wont install any os

[charliehustle]

ok so i have a toshiba satellite a215 laptop and it came stock with windows vista home, and i wanted to install windows xp on it so i loaded the disk and deleted the old partition and tried to install the windows xp but it it just hung at 0% and never moved, so retried a couple of times and got the same thing so i said ok and put in a windows vista ultimate cd and tried to install that also but it keeps stopping during the installing also at around 50%.

so im not exactly sure what the problem is, do i have to install the stock os which was vista home or what?

 

[englandr753]

Are these full version legal copies of windows you are installing? If you try to install downloaded versions of windows you can get these problems, this is why I ask this.

You could also have a hard drive on the brinks of going bad. I have an older laptop doing the same thing and I have determined its the hard drive.