HDD Problem

[snipersquad100]

Hi, I wanted to upgrade my hdd drive on my pc to a 2TB WD20EURX. I installed the recovery disk onto the drive but the pc wont attempt to boot up.
I thought perhaps the motherboard wont support a 2tb drive so i bought a 500gb WD5000AVDS Drive but the same thing happened, it took the recovery files but no boot-up. So i treid my 160gb drive which is the one i want to replace, loaded the recovery files and it worked fine.
whats going on, is 160gb the max it can take???
Any help greatly appreciated.

[eugenenine]

How old is the PC?
What exactly does not boot up mean?  blank screen, or just post's and doesn't see the drive?  Can you enter the bios setup?

[snipersquad100]

the pc is about 4 years old it a hps5000. Do you know the screen that gives you the choice to select bios, recovery ect, thats what it get stuck on. the bios see's the drive.

[rdl]

What "recovery disk"?
What do you mean by "I installed (it) onto the drive"
What OS is this?

[snipersquad100]

how do i do that

[snipersquad100]

windows7 cd's that came with it.

[rdl]

You're probably going to have to boot from the CD.

If you want everything the same as it is now on the 160GB drive, you'll have to make a new set of system image disks and a repair disk using "Backup and Restore" which can be found in the control panel. Those CDs that came with the PC will put it back as it was new.

[snipersquad100]

thats what i want to do rdl

[rdl]

Okay, then just boot from the CD. If there's just one CD it probably means that it will only restore from a hidden partition on the HDD it came with.

Is this a laptop?

[snipersquad100]

It's a desktop and it got 4 recovery cd's. They install every time onto the new hdd drive, but when i restart the pc thee hdd dont boot windows, instead it just stays on the page that give the opptions to i.e Esc=boot menu F10=setup F11=systerm recovery F9=diagnostics

[rdl]

It sounds like these are "recovery disks" provided by the PC manufacturer and something isn't working right. Usually a PC will try to boot from the first drive found and if it's not bootable you won't get anything but a short error message.

What I would do, assuming there is a valid CoA for Windows, is download an actual install disk from Microsoft, and just reinstall from scratch. Another option would be to start Windows from your original disk and make your own set of system restore DVDs.

The best place I've found for figuring out Windows 7 issues is http://www.sevenforums.com/