Reinstall System Using Recovery cd on new hdd failed

[minnmedia]

I bought new hdd 60gb for my thinkpad x41. I removed my old hdd(20gb) from my x41 and installed my new hdd(60gb). I've tried to reinstall all the system using recovery cd to my new hdd(60gb). After inserted all 6 recovery cds --> automatically reboot---> system restart ---> enter to Think Vantage System Recovery Application---> recovery is running ---> after a few minute later---> It shows error "System failed to recover".

What I should do???
Any suggestion????
Please Help me....

[sjthinkpader]

If you have a fdisk utility, run that on the new 60GB drive first. Are there any jumpers on the new HDD?

[minnmedia]

Thanks for your reply. No jumper on my hdd. Can I use windows xp bootable cd for format my hdd?

[sjthinkpader]

Yes, you should be able to use XP boot CD. Just do a low level format first. By the way, is this new drive a HTC426060GnAT00 or other drives made for music players?

[minnmedia]

Thanks for your reply. I can now use my new HDD. I back up all my data from my old hdd to DVD and I restored with my new HDD. May be my R&R cds are something wrong.

[sjthinkpader]

I thought my Windows boot CD or external CD drive gone bad too. But it wasn't. It was just some odd ball format on a music player HDD. It is important to do a F9 returning the BIOS to Default state.

[minnmedia]

Actually, my HDD is not a music player HDD. It is HTC426060G9AT00 "Hitachi" hard disk.

"F9 returning the BIOS to Default state" what is that mean? can you please explain me?

[sjthinkpader]

At boot time, after pressing F1, press F9 to return the BIOS settings to default.

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