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HP Pavilion new hard drive won't run correctly.

chraizytraighn

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So a couple of years ago, I bought a HP Pavilion with Windows 8.1 for playing a few small games while on the go. Long story short, I downloaded Windows 10 when it came out, and it crashed my computer. As it turned out, Windows 10 fried my hard drive. So i ordered the same hard drive that was originally in my laptop, but the laptop wouldn't run any games i had, even small ones from the Xbox game store. It ran all games at about 0.5 to 1 frame per second. So my question is, would it be the wrong hard drive that i'm using that would be causing the problems? Or would it be that I need to "tune" the hard drive that i have? Thanks for your time.
 

I looked and it said there were no drivers available for my laptop. Any other suggestions?
 


Is that old that there is no driver or no driver for windows 10?
 

What do you mean by that?