laptop wont allow new hard drive

[fxspider]

HP 2000-2b19WM Notebook PC will not take new hard drive, no settings in Bios to allow to change SATA or IDE i have enabled legacy support...any help would be appreciated...

[Huffer]

What do you mean will not "take" it? Is it showing up in the BIOS? If you are trying to install Windows 8 you are going to have to enable secure boot. The ahci/ide is not an adjustment you can make it is locked to native SATA i.e. ahci. What model of hard drive are you trying to install?

[fxspider]

when i install windows it stops at windows start up with error 0X0000007b ...Hard drive doesnt show up in the bios..i have been trying all I know what to do to find a way to get it to read, its a Momentus  1tb sata hard drive

[fxspider]

it is showing notebook hard drive...

[Huffer]

That error is "inaccessible boot device" which you would expect. What was going on before that caused you to replace the hard drive? Can you test the drive and maybe initialize/format it in a different computer? Should not be necessary but sometimes that helps. You must have secure boot enabled or you could not boot from the Windows 8 disk. 

[fxspider]

ty for the reply, yes its booting from the disk but win XP SP3 then upgrade to win 7 , I just want a bigger hard drive as I use it for DJ services and the hard drive is not big enough....

[Huffer]

OK let's please be clear here. What are you trying to do? Install Windows 7 or Windows 8 or clone the drive or what? Seems like minutiae maybe but it all makes a difference.  

[fxspider]

I am trying to install win 7 , but all I have is a legit win xp disk and win 7 upgrade ..hoping to upgrade to 10 as I get it free through win 7, I cannot get it to load windows on the disk , let me rephraze that its loading windows, just wont run it off the Hard drive.. I have tried the hard drive in my other laptop and loaded np, so I know its a setting of some sort but I cannot figure it out for anything...my next step is I'll try to clone my 320 gb to my 1tb and see if that will work..just would rather have it install clean...thx for the quick replies..

[Huffer]

OK you cannot install XP on that laptop without modifying the installation disk. XP had no SATA drivers built into the standard installation disk. You have to literally author a new disk and slipstream in some SATA drivers or the hard drive will not be recognized during installtion. Also it has to be in Legacy mode to install Windows 7 (or XP for that matter). 

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Don't you have a Key Code on the laptop?

[fxspider]

I dont see a Key Code anywhere, I have looked all over it came with win 8 installed.....