Sorry I figured it out last night, apparently even though formatting the Hard Drive on another computer works, but aparently if the computer you formatted the HD has a higher OS then the one you wish...

Ok, I finally got the chance to get over to my friends house and formatted the HD (previously had XP home.) I then placed it back into my computer and changed in bios to boot from the CD drive (CD...

disregard that last post. I can use my friends computer and hook my hard drive up as a second drive and format it from there right? or will that not work for the same reason and take information...

I feel like an idiot but I learned something new at least, TY. So there's no way around it, I have to buy a new hard drive...

sorry for delay in response had to wait to get back to work to be able to access a computer. The computer itself is a HP Pavilon a730n (you can still look up the specs of the computer with google.) ...

Since I replaced the motherboard on the computer it does beep if there is no ram in it, but there is no beeps when the keyboard is not plugged in but its always been like that as far as i know. For...

I tried a friends XP Pro disk and the computer doesn't even seem to read it at all. I tried changing the boot in bios to the CD drive but that didn't make any difference. I'm at a loss on what the...

Thanks for the advise, i replaced themobo with a new one and that resolved that issue, now i'm having an issue where when Iturn the computer on it goes to a screen asking me how i want to boot it. In...

At first when I turned on my computer I would be able to sign into my account and be able to get on the internet and maybe one website, the computer would completley freeze and I would have to...