Solved Loading new hard drive trouble

[alyseshadow]

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop that recently had a corrupt hard drive. I bought a new WD hard drive to replace it, turned the computer on with the windows 7 CD in the disk drive and had it boot from disk. Windows loaded files and I was able to get through a few steps until it wanted the drivers. I put the drivers disk in and I got an error message saying
no signed device drivers found
I tried another CD since I have 2 of the same laptop and this CD didn't work either. Everywhere online says it's corrupt disks, but I have a hard time believing that since I tried 2 different disks and still get the same message. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Britton30]

Can you allow w7 to completely install, then do the drivers? That's how it works on an older Dell Vostro 1000 I have. It is a Dell OEM disk?

 

[alyseshadow]

It wants to know here to install windows and I have no options! It is a disk from dell that came with my computer!

 

[theog]

Will the new HDD show in the BIOS?

 

[alyseshadow]

Under system information then device information it says primary hard drive = (none)

 

[theog]

Remove HDD & refit, check BIOS.

 

[alyseshadow]

Removed & made sure it was in good! Still same problems!

 

[theog]

Do you have the Dell manufacturer's diagnostic tools disk?
If YES, run the disk.

 

[alyseshadow]

No, did not get that disk!

 

[theog]

I would have your motherboard checked.

 

[alyseshadow]

Weird thing is, the old hard drive comes up in the BIOS menu and it was corrupt, that's why I'm replacing it! That would mean my motherboard works right? I just went through a ton of troubleshooting on this forum with other people and it came out that they advised me to get a hard drive. I'm wondering if it's not compatible with my laptop, even though WD support says it's compatible with any windows 7 laptop.

 

[gregrocker]

Try to run Dell Hardware Diagnostics from F12 Menu

You'll need to get the HD to show up in BIOS setup to Clean Install Windows 7