Please help!!! Labtop Hard Drive

[night_hawk13]

The original hard drive on my labtop recently went bad so I bought a new one, I loaded the recovery disc into my computer and loaded the operating system (windows me) and it says everthing is fine, reboot your computer. I reboot and I get "General error, failed writing to drive C: ) When I try to reload my recovery discs a second time it says it cannot create partition, all disk space is currently in use. This is the second hard drive this has happened on in a row so Im pretty sure its not the drive. I was thinking perhaps the IDE cable? But I really have no idea please help!!!

[Raptor]

Did you format before you attempted to write anything onto the hard disk?

[night_hawk13]

I thought the recovery disc that came with the labtop would format it for me. So I guess no I havnt formatted. I dont have any floppys atm is there anyway to make a boot disc onto a CD-R?

[Raptor]

I am not aware wheter that is possible or not. Perhaps you should take a look on a website that provides people with bootdisks in order to determine if it can be done or not.

[night_hawk13]

Well I installed the book disc, and formatted my hard drive, but when it comes to 100% it says format complete, next line is could not create boot, next line format aborted. Im about to trow the thing out the window.

[Computer_Commando]

Download the diagnostic tools from the manufacturer of the hard drive you bought.

[2k dummy]

Did you Fdisk before format?

[night_hawk13]

Yes I formatted, now can anyone give me some ideas on what it might be, insted of more questions?

[2k dummy]

You did not answer my question. I didn't ask if you formatted, I asked if you ran Fdisk BEFORE you formatted.

[night_hawk13]

No I didnt, but now it wont let me erase the partitions or delete anything off the HD without an error.

[2k dummy]

Boot the machine with a boot disk. At the A> prompt type fdisk and press enter. Choose to delete any existing partitions. Next choose to create a primary DOS partition and make it active. If you get prompted for large disk support, choose yes (y). Let Fdisk run without any interuption. When it completes, at the A> prompt type format c: /s and the disk will be reformated and the sytem files transferred to it. You should now be able to see the drive and change to it.

[night_hawk13]

the format C: /s command doesnt work with windows me, and I have tried that, I still get error writing boot.

[2k dummy]

Try the command sys c: . But you really need to run Fdisk.

[night_hawk13]

Ok just so no one asks me anymore questions and perhaps I can get a few more answers, When I boot up my computer from the hard drive it says General error writing to drive C: . When I try to use my recovery disc and use the option restore operating system I get "image error" cannot create partition, all disk space is currently in use. When I try to run fdisk and delete the partitons and create new ones I get error writing fixed disk.

[merlin_2]

Your recovery disks were made for your old drive which had an image on it?what laptop is this?