My older friend gave me his computer to fix and I found that it wouldn't boot and was ultimately failing the Hard Drive Short DST - so end of life for that drive. Physically replacing the drive won't be an issue, but how do we get Windows back onto the machine? I'm hoping that I don't have to tell him to buy it outright since this is a pretty decent HP machine, but I'm really not sure how this part can work if everything gets lost with the old drive.
Thanks for any direction you can provide!