i had a hard drive come up bad replaced harddrive with new one and can not get windows to setup [ Edited ]

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

RAID shouldn't be a problem if your original configuation was only one hard drive and you didn't try to build a RAID array.  The default bios setting is RAID.

[doneannoyed]

ok stiill waiting to see if it is going to go past install software point

[doneannoyed]

got to same point the states windows setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

I suspect that the HP recovery disks are seeing a mismatch between the "tattooing" information on the motherboard and with the information contained in the HP recovery disks.  You need to contact HP Support or an authorized HP repair facility to remedy this situation.

[doneannoyed]

Ok I will give it a shot. Thank you very much for all your halp