Hp Pavilion Elite m9517c New hard drive problem

Me and my bro brought this hp 6 months ago and it stopped booting, it would get stuck on the blue hp welcome screennd would not respond what so ever to any thing period. Did a little more research and found out it was the hard drive giving me trouble, so i I buy a new hard drive of the same model, and now I cant install windows vista on it because it wont recognize the cd-rom, then I tried using a flash memory stick, added all the necessary drivers but the hp wont recognize the flash memory stick and I cant install the necessary drives, So I do more research and some people say to use the older model cd-rom units, and I find an old one and on this hp motherboard of m9517c it has no slot big enough to connect the older cd-rom drive. I see a slot on the motherboard but it's not long enough to fit the old slave/master cord. I'm stomped. Does anyone have any insight that can lend a hand please.

Are you sure the problem was the hard drive and not the motherboard? Usually if the hard drive is bad, it will attempt to boot and then say boot disk failure or no operating system found.
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Problem with system recovery for a new hard drive in my Pavilion p6210y Windows 7 Premium 64bit

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Problems installing new hard drive

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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this has not worked. I didn't have quicktime to begin with so I don't know if that makes a difference? After following the instructions, I get the "registry keys missing" problem appear again (which I've subsequently fixed again) and then when I connected the ipod I got the following message - 'Device driver software was not successfully installed'.
I've tried windows update but this doesn't do anything as '...the service is not running'.
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I probably should have mentioned this twist. My music is on a seperate drive. So what I have is Win7 on SSD1, WinXP on 2nd drive and media on a 3rd drive.
I backed up my media on both OS's and they seem to conflict with or do not recognize each other. Installing all my music on my SSD along with my Win7 is not an option (too small).
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"Backup and restoration of your system using standard tools do not require reactivation. While reactivation after backing up or restoring the system was required in early versions of Adobe software (such as Adobe Photoshop® CS), Adobe has continued to improve the activation process with new technology that eliminates the need to reactivate after system restoration. In complex situations where the system is being upgraded, we recommend deactivating the Adobe software before commencing the system upgrade. Once the system upgrade is completed, the subsequent install/restore will require reactivation, which is typically accomplished without difficulty and is completely transparent to the user."
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It means there is no bootable system on the drive. If you still have access to the old drive, then I suggest you boot from it then clone it to the new internal drive. Use OPTION boot to boot from the Recovery HD on the old drive:
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I have an iBook g4 14" 1.42 ghz. I recently installed a new hard drive. I put the install CD in. Then, I pressed the power button, then the "C" key. Black screen and No chiming. Please tell me, what I can do to resolve this? What is the problem with it?

I have an iBook g4 14" 1.42 ghz. I recently installed a new hard drive. I put the install CD in. Then, I pressed the power button, then the "C" key. Black screen and No chiming. Please tell me, what I can do to resolve this? What is the problem with it?

Since it will not boot then a hardware test can't be run. You could try FireWire Target Disk Mode and if it works then access from another Mac to run tests on the new drive. You could also try installing the OS X software from the host computer. If this does not work then professional help should be considered.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661
http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/07/how-to-boot-a-mac-in-target-disk-mode/
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how-to-use-target-disk-mode-to-boot-from- another-macs-hard-drive

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