hard drive busted? virus? need help reinstalling windows!!!

[deadsnake]

I turn to you great people yet again for some help! all of a sudden my pc stareted acting funny, took over 30 min to turn on and another 15 min for each program to turn on so theres deff something wrong there so I want to reinstall windows completely return to factory, i bought a new HD to install to put a new copy on there so i have a copy of vista (from my old pc) and it doesnt want to install it says some file is missing. can i get some helppppp please and i did try to restore and everything but no go

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

Your Vista cd is probably an OEM Recovery/Restore type cd. It won't work on any system other than the one it was shipped with and, in fact, it would be illegal to even install Vista using that cd on any other computer.

What is the make of the system that is giving you problems and what did it have for an operating system? Where is that install cd?

Murray

[deadsnake]

i have the same operating system only i have upgraded my cpu put an extra HD in it a video card, fan, ram, power supply, and a gygabite motherbard same processor n everything though, it basically was a hp a6700f

[deadsnake]

helppp

[renegade600]

Originally Posted by deadsnake

I turn to you great people yet again for some help! all of a sudden my pc stareted acting funny, took over 30 min to turn on and another 15 min for each program to turn on so theres deff something wrong there so I want to reinstall windows completely return to factory, i bought a new HD to install to put a new copy on there so i have a copy of vista (from my old pc) and it doesnt want to install it says some file is missing. can i get some helppppp please and i did try to restore and everything but no go

Originally Posted by deadsnake

i have the same operating system only i have upgraded my cpu put an extra HD in it a video card, fan, ram, power supply, and a gygabite motherbard same processor n everything though, it basically was a hp a6700f

you changed out the motherboard? if you change out the motherboard you can no longer use the os that came with the system if it is oem. OEM operating systems can never be transfered to another motherboard, whether it is the computer it came with or a different computer. The only exception is if the motherboard went bad and then it must be replaced by the same motherboard (if available)

The oem software that comes with a computer only has drivers for that specific system. That could be why you are getting the error message of missing files, you are using it on a different motherboard.

[deadsnake]

the motherboard did go bad, i had to replace it, i do have all the required drivers to run the system i have been for the past year i just dont get how i cant install the operating system on the new hd

[renegade600]

tell exactly what os disk are you using - are you using a recovery/restore? or an actual os disk?

[deadsnake]

os 64 bit vista when i run from disk it goes straight to install now or i can choose to repair