Changing hard drive & operating system

[MrMoeMoe]

When I put the new hard drive in I got "No bootable device found press any key" oh from here I inserted the old hard back in.

I was able to get to Recovery Manager and your allowed to do a; one time copy of recovery disc. For some reason it wouldn't allow me to do it with a USB stick, but i was able to insert  5 disc for: recovery media.

I hope i explained your question here. 

[Huffer]

Got it. Understood but if the old hard drive is bad it was not capable of producing a viable set of recovery disks I am sorry to say. We gotta find another way to load software on your computer. 

[MrMoeMoe]

Yes I didn't think aout that, even though the disk might have looked liked it was formatted. It could have been damaged or corrupted because my hard drive was damaged.

I am going to contact those companys that you gave me for the repair kit: which are: http://www.computersurgeons.com/ and http://www.restoredisks.com/

thank you

[MrMoeMoe]

Hello again, and I'm am stuck again.

I purchased the HP recovery media and I got 3 disk, and the first one went through

but when I loaded the second one it stopped  and I got a message" Bootmgr is missing" Press Ctrl*Atl* Del to restart. But I just get the same message over and over again.

[Huffer]

Disk 2 is not bootable....the program launched by disk 1 should ask for disk 2 and then when you put in disk 2 the recovery program should continue. 

[MrMoeMoe]

Yes after the first disk, it said insert 2 disk and i did, and it said; " wait"

it said something but I forgot but it would not go through. I can't remember sorry.

Is there anyway to start the process from the beginning and see if it goes through?

[MrMoeMoe]

oh thanks for all your advice again.

[Huffer]

Yes you can start over from disk 1 as many times as needed. Make sure the disks are clean. 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

[MrMoeMoe]

I was just doing that I cleaned them and started all over again. I think I know where I made my mistake. " After disk one completed at 56% it said insert disk 2 and wait" I put disk 2 in and pressed "next". MY MISTAKE WAS PRESSING NEXT!

This time I inserted disk 2 and did nothing, I noticed it went from 56% to 57%. So I didn't  touch anything after inserting disk 1.

Right now Software Installation is being installed.

thanks and thanks

[MrMoeMoe]

Hey!! 

It works 

thanks for all your help. After inserting the third disk, "didn't touch anything' Wow so Happy.....