[FONT="]Hello!
This one should twist your head a bit if you’re anything like me!
I have a Pavilion M6 1045DX laptop and the HD crashed. It was 750GB so off to eBay I went to buy another one. I decided to buy a NEW SEALED HD so I bought a blue label WD brand new. (March 2014) Just for grins I wiped and verified the drive and it passed. I temporarily installed a 40GB hard drive to build the machine while I was waiting for the new drive figuring I would just clone it when it arrived. When I went to clone the test drive to the new drive I received an error about block sizes. I use the Apricorn DriveWire and have seen this on a rare occasion. Rather than fight with it I decide to put the new 750 drive in the laptop and build it all over again. This is when I received this error.
“Windows setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware”
So, I grabbed another blue label 160GB WD drive and it installed Win 7 fine on the laptop. I then took the 750GB drive and installed in on an old IBM T61 and it too installed fine. Things that make you say...hmmmmmm?
Anyone have any ideas why the new 750GB WD drive gives me this error on only the HP Pavilion M6?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!!
BTW...this laptop doesn’t have RAID and was NOT Built for windows 8. It came with Windows 7. And yes I’ve reset the bios back to factor standards!
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This one should twist your head a bit if you’re anything like me!
I have a Pavilion M6 1045DX laptop and the HD crashed. It was 750GB so off to eBay I went to buy another one. I decided to buy a NEW SEALED HD so I bought a blue label WD brand new. (March 2014) Just for grins I wiped and verified the drive and it passed. I temporarily installed a 40GB hard drive to build the machine while I was waiting for the new drive figuring I would just clone it when it arrived. When I went to clone the test drive to the new drive I received an error about block sizes. I use the Apricorn DriveWire and have seen this on a rare occasion. Rather than fight with it I decide to put the new 750 drive in the laptop and build it all over again. This is when I received this error.
“Windows setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware”
So, I grabbed another blue label 160GB WD drive and it installed Win 7 fine on the laptop. I then took the 750GB drive and installed in on an old IBM T61 and it too installed fine. Things that make you say...hmmmmmm?
Anyone have any ideas why the new 750GB WD drive gives me this error on only the HP Pavilion M6?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!!
BTW...this laptop doesn’t have RAID and was NOT Built for windows 8. It came with Windows 7. And yes I’ve reset the bios back to factor standards!
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