Hard drive more small then original

Recently, I had my original hard drive catches up and finally die after the expiry of two years of use, just like the original warranty.  I bought a new DOA and sent exchange of the guarantee and the recovery disc for my system even ordered that I had misplaced their some time ago.

When you try to use the system recovery discs I get to the point where I am asked to insert the additional disk and then given the error indicating that the hard drive is smaller then the original when it is the same size as before.  I think I spent more than two months of waiting around and sending in products and applications be treated then to be greeted with an error like this to be well honestly unsettling warranty.

Fortunately I download Windows 7 ISO that I need to do a fresh install, because I still have intact label.  But knowing that we cannot use a smaller and sometimes even size hard drive seems beyond me.  Are there other ways I can get my computer running and upward without it takes a repair shop or wait for someone respond here and give me a bunch of resources that I may or may not understand?

I am currently using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 if it matters

Thanks for your time

Hello

1 TB vs 1 TB may be same size, BUT may be not yet the same manufacturer, according to the batch. We normally have in TB, GB or even MB but the machinery account of BITs and bytes. One they call normally 1 TB HARD drive is NOT = 1 to.

Hope it makes sense.

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