Hi There, I`m new to this board and would appreciate any help, I have a laptop from a friend who`s asked me to look at it for her. It doesn`t appear to have a system running on it, maybe she formatted it or something. When i try and load an Xp disk, it starts to set up, then says, windows couldn`t continue to install as the hard drive is corrupt.
Without getting an adapter to transfer the HDD to my pc and trying to formatt it from there, my question is, could i just tell her to buy a new HDD and i can do a straight swap with the broken one?? Is it that simple to just swap new to old housing?Her Laptop is less than 2 years old!!
Many thanks for any help.