Laptop won't boot windows

[BillyTheFridge]

I have a laptop I'm working on right now and I'm stumped. it's an old, old Gateway laptop. IDE and such, but it will not boot windows from any source. I have tried a windows install disk, kept getting an error that led me to believe the hard drive was bad (don't remember the specific error right now). So I was able to boot hirens from a flashdrive and checked the hard drive but it was good as far as I could tell. Then I figured I should try to boot windows from the flashdrive... No luck. gives me an error saying it wasn't able to boot windows and I should insert the recovery disk. It doesn't even show up with an option for usb on the boot menu but I was able to boot hirens from the flashdrive earlier by choosing to boot from the hard drive. it's a mess. If you guys need any information I'll do my best to get it to you.

 

[ffg7]

make & model# of the gateway.