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So I got a Seagate Momentus XT 750GB HDD, and installed it. I ran the Seagate test utility to see if the drive functions properly before I did anything else, and the new drive passed twice, so it seems ok. When I try to boot from the Win7 recovery discs, I get the same crashing trouble as I had with the old drive.
When I tried to boot from the recovery disk, the first time I had the screen go completely black (not even backlight) and couldn't recover from that. The next time, it simply hung right before loading to the start of the recovery wizard. Third time I just got a blue screen halfway through the "windows is loading files" screen.
I'm not sure what additional information I can give, seeing as its literally a completely new drive without any software installed.