Windows will not configure my computer from recovery disks...

I have a HP desktop computer and my hard drive failed.  I bought a new hard drive.  I tried to reinstall windows on the new drive using the recovery discs, I did when I first bought my computer.  It goes through the process of formatting and installation. Start Windows configure my computer.  After a few minutes, I get a message box saying "Windows can not configure your equipment for this computer."  When I click on the 'OK' button, my computer restarts and the process begins again. What should I do to make this work?

Hello

This problem occurs because Windows Vista cannot distinguish between ambiguous hard disks.

In versions of Microsoft Windows Setup that are prior to the installation of Windows Vista, the hard disks are marked with distinct values to distinguish them. However, this method of distinction between the drives is no longer supported due to the risk of corruption of data on hard disks.

  • You have more than one hard drive connected to your computer?

You can check this link:

Error message when you try to install Windows Vista on a computer that has initialized the hard drives: "this computer's hardware can not supported booting from this drive.

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925481

Please post back and let us know if it helped to solve your problem.

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