Can't install new hard drive on Windows XP

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Nick_8950

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I bought a new hard drive and am trying to reinstall windows xp (my other hard drive crashed and it was time for a upgrade). I have a 5 year old HP pavilon Motherboard. I but the Windows CD in, select boot from CD, and then a Warning Message comes up that says "You must remove the HP personal Meida Drive or any other external media drive from the system before attempting system recovery. Data will be erased if the external drive is left in the system. Remove any such device and press any key to continue." This is not a fancy computer. Only the hard drive, CD drive, and video card are plugged in. When I press any key to continue the computer restarts. In my ten years of computing this is the first time I am really stumped. Thanks for any help.
 
it may not work if you are trying to do a system restore from the current drive to the new drive. the hp system restore is set to copy everything over to the first partition of the current drive. you may have to ghost/clone the drive.
 
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