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Trouble installing windows 7 to new hdd using recovery disk
I have been trying to find a thread that could help me with my problem but have not had much luck yet. So I wanted to start my own thread to try to solve my problem. Please bare with me as this is my first time doing this. My hard dive on my HP computer recently failed. I had been receiving a message about a "hard drive failure is imminent" for a while and had done a backup of my system and system image. I also have my recovery disks that I made when I first got my computer. I did not receive any disk with my computer. Anyway, my hard drive failed and I was no longer able to get into windows, so I bought a new HDD the same size as the old one and installed it into my computer. I then put in my recovery disk thinking that this would format my new drive and reinstall windows 7. After about thirty minutes a message popped up on the screen which read:
Recovery Manager could not restore your computer using image.
Please contact HP support. Error code: 0xe0ef000e
I have tried this several times with the same result. I made sure that nothing was connected to my computer except the keyboard, monitor and mouse. I went into the bios and did the F5 reset factory settings. I have taken the battery out and put it back in. My new hard drive does show up in the setup window. I can't get to a command prompt or boot without the windows recovery disk in. But nothing has worked so far. I have just enough computer knowlege to want to try things on my own and learn more rather than wanting to take it to someone else to fix it. Unfortunately, I really don't know enough to know what else to do. Thank you for any insight into this problem.