Installing New Hard Drive?

[gillweb]

I have a HP Pavilion N3210 (Notebook). I purchased a new, bigger hard drive for it. To install the new hard drive is it as simple as just plugging the new one in and re-installing WinXP to it? Can anyone help me? Right now I plugged in the new drive and it's just stuck on the "HP Pavilion - Hit F2 for Setup" screen and nothing happens when I hit F2? I assume there are other things I need to do? Can onyone help? :confused:

[Reid]

What size hard drive did you get? Since the N3210 originally only had a 4 or 6G drive, it might have trouble with a large drive.

Product info here:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=57778&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us#

[Paul Komski]

If you cant get into the BIOS setup using F2 it could be that the new HDD is either faulty or is making a bad connection to the computer. Can you get into the BIOS with either the old HDD attached or with no HDD attached.

[Sylvander]

Perhaps if you downloaded and made the HDD manufacturers' partitioning utility and booted with that in place [does the notebook have a FDD?] it wouldn't get to the point of attempting to boot from a HDD that the BIOS cannot fully address [perhaps that's what's causing the freeze].
Is your BIOS Setup configured to "Auto" detect all the drives?
If the BIOS cannot address the whole HDD capacity, the utility prog will probably have the ability to [automatically] install Drive Overlay software.
That's one [cost free, if not the best] solution to the problem.