dead hard drive-no back up disk

[mailliw]

I have a Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5518 laptop. My hard drive died and I have not made a backup disk. Can I put a new hard drive in it and make my computer work again? I know I lost all my info but what steps do I need to make a new blank hard drive work?

 

[johnb35]

Yeah, put in a new hard drive and then reinstall windows 7 645 bit from this link.

http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24209.iso

Download that file and burn the image to a cd. Don't just copy the file as it won't work. Then install windows using the cd and use the key that is on the bottom of the laptop to activate.

 

[mailliw]

When I download that file it is 3.04 GB, to much to burn to cd.

 

[johnb35]

I meant to burn it to a dvd.