I recently had a problem with my laptop that it would not load up. So i did a little research and found that my laptop hard drive had gone from the error message i got.

Not a problem so far.

I then said ok ill buy a new hard drive which i did and is the extact same model as the one i had as i did not want to get it wrong.

I then put the new hard drive in to the laptop and put my windows xp disk in cd rom drive.

This is the problem i have that the cd-rom tries to read the disk but fails and the disk does work cos i tried it on a friends so i dont know how to get windows on my hard drive.

I have tried numerous ways first i tried installing throught another laptop, the hdd works on there but when i put it back in the broken laptop it blue screens.

I tried from usb but my laptop doesnt accept it also i have no floppy disk drive.

I dont mind spending money to fix it as long as it works.

What can i do?

P.S my laptop is a toshiba satiellete a40-151 with 30gb hard drive

Thank you in advance if you can help

How does it fail when you put the CD in? Do you get a error message? Or does it just not boot?

I had a couple of different errors but mainly doesnt load or boot i hear the cd drive spin and make a like chuging noise.

The error is some like press a key to boot from disk i press but nothing

1st go into setup on your computer check to see if you can load from cd mark it as[1st boot]if you can`t get into window,at boot secquience press F8 pick last known config.press that.Buy the way did you format the last hard drive.