How do I install 7 home premium on new hard drive

Ok so here goes. I'm having major problems with my laptop (Dell Inspiron N5030). All was well and good when I was running windows 7 home premium, but then I upgraded to 8 via Microsoft's online £24.99 upgrade offer. Since then the laptop has crashed several times and I don't have the product key to reinstall and activate despite numerous attempts at contacting Microsoft and every other method of recovering the product key. Now my hard drive has failed and I have to replace it. What I need to know is how do I put windows 7 home premium onto the new hard drive? I have the disc to do this, and the driver disc from my original dell package.

Please keep this as simple as possible as I am not great with computers and can't afford to bring it to the shop to get fixed!

Thanks!

Also have my original 7 product key sticker on laptop

Simple as that? Guy in the computer shop told me to bin the laptop! It also won't charge but it's not the battery as I tried it in my brothers identical laptop, and not the charger as I tried it in his too.

Everything needed is here to get and keep a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.

How do you know you HD failed? Did you test it with manufacturer's HD Diagnostic extended CD scan?

I ran the on board diagnostics and the hdd came up as a fail. If I format it will I be able to still use it or should I replace it?

You can confirm the diagnostics by running them again, and by running the HD maker's HD Diagnostic
extended CD scan. If it confirms it's failing then it should be replaced.

bigmck said:

Boylo said:

Simple as that? Guy in the computer shop told me to bin the laptop! It also won't charge but it's not the battery as I tried it in my brothers identical laptop, and not the charger as I tried it in his too.

If you can get the laptop to Power On, then get your Windows 7 installed and we can discuss the charging problem after that.

Ok so I have formatted the hard drive and it is not failing the diagnostics anymore, have installed Windows 7 Home Premium, all my Dell drivers from my driver disc, created a restore point, installed all the programs I need including AVG 2014, and have ran windows update and everything is working 100% so far (haven't entered my product key yet).

The laptop is still not charging showing a message box;

Also in my computer I see only the local disc (c), no recovery, is this an issue?

How can i fix the charging issue?

Thanks!