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by aaronlwth Jun 27, 2009 last reply Jun 27, 2009

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I recently bought a new hardrive for my laptop but as I went to install it the words invalid petition came up? Does anyone know how I can fix ths problem?

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by aaronlwth Jun 27, 2009

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by seanferd Jun 27, 2009

You need to partition and format your new drive before you can use it.

If it is the only drive, simply put your OS install disk in the optical drive, and let it do its thing.

For systems where this would be a second drive, assuming Windows is your OS,

Vista:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/d9a4d35e-efdf-406c-a049-0860180129a71033.mspx
XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

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