Satellite C650, media recovery fails after replacing HARD drive

I have a 3 years C650, and the HARD drive has failed. I got a replacement drive and sorts to recover from the recovery media disks that I created and although he claimed to have re - partition the drive and reinstalled windows, windows startup fails when tried to configure the devices "could not configure windows to run on this hardware.

After this error, the boot sequence goes into an endless loop, asking to start the installation procedure.

Thinking that my records may have been corrupted, I ordered a set of Toshiba recovery disks. Once again, these go through the recovery process and still once, Windows startup does not exactly in the same place.

A little annoying to have spent £30 for nothing.

I have a picture of Windows system on my external HARD drive, but I can't get the machine to a point where it will actually start so I can recover from that.

Any suggestions on how to proceed is welcome!

Thank you
Martin

Hello

Of course, this isn't a problem of recovery disk.
I guess there is a problem with the HARD drive but I n t think that the HARD drive has failed I think there is a problem of setting

First, you should go to BIOS and check if the SATA set to AHCI.
Then you should also format the HARD drive again.

I recommend to use the freeware tool called GParted. You could create a live USB stick bootable flash memory which will allow you to start the unit and start GParted tool.
Format the HARD drive, and then create a partition.

After that, take the recovery disk and start the recovery procedure.
Good luck

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