Yes, I have tried this twice now on 2 identical laptops with the same result each time. I'm concerned that the hard drives aren't compatible with my laptops for some reason. I'm using 2 separate Windows 7 Home Premium discs. I bought both laptops refurbished in December and both hard drives ended up failing. I'm honestly not positive I got the correct hard drives for the laptops, but they are recognizing the drives and installing to the same point each time.
I've never initialized a hard drive before (guess they just always came ready to use?) so I was missing this step, which was preventing Windows from installing completely. Already have one laptop up and running today and about to start on the other.
DELL-Ravi Ch
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April 25th, 2014 19:00
Hi willowgirl77,
Please try reinstalling the operating system again and this time delete all the partitions available and recreate a new partition to fix the issue.
Note: Deleting partition table and recreating a partition will lead to data loss.
willowgirl77
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April 25th, 2014 20:00
Yes, I have tried this twice now on 2 identical laptops with the same result each time. I'm concerned that the hard drives aren't compatible with my laptops for some reason. I'm using 2 separate Windows 7 Home Premium discs. I bought both laptops refurbished in December and both hard drives ended up failing. I'm honestly not positive I got the correct hard drives for the laptops, but they are recognizing the drives and installing to the same point each time.
gmaguire
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April 26th, 2014 12:00
What laptop is this?
Toshiba laptop hard drives are notorious for failing, it may well be that you've got another faulty drive.
EDIT: Dumb dumb over here didn't see "Latitude E6400" in the title. I reckon a 1TB drive should work in that.
willowgirl77
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April 26th, 2014 13:00
Problem solved!
This was my first time installing a new hard drive in a laptop. I contacted the seller on Ebay and he gave me this link: http://www.overclock.net/t/1227647/how-to-initialize-and-format-a-new-disk-for-use-in-windows
I've never initialized a hard drive before (guess they just always came ready to use?) so I was missing this step, which was preventing Windows from installing completely. Already have one laptop up and running today and about to start on the other.
Thanks for the replies here!