Recent content by rubsley

Hi, and thanks for that. I guess I mentioned trying XP as I have a working XP disk and just thought something was better than nothing. I've progressed and got the computer booting from a flash drive. The new HDD is fine. But still can't recover to it. Windows 7 File Recovery doesn't seem to...

Hi, the drive went bad so I backed up Windows 8 (legit) with Acronis. Put in new 1TB hard drive. Tried to boot from USB and Windows XP disk. No joy. Says "Smart Disk Error 301". What to do?