You can't; there's nothing to install it to.
Find a computer where you can add a password in the bios. Doing so, you can setup your bios to boot from hard drive first before booting from the DVD drive. No windows install DVD will be able to re install windows since the hard drive will boot first.Then, in windows, setup you account as admin and add a password for it if there is no password. Setup a guest account for other windows users. That's it.
Assuming your Compaq laptop has a USB port or two, just plug in the new drive with the USB cable. It will show up as another drive, using the first available drive letter, in Windows Explorer (or equivalent).
Yes. Actually, there is no need to remove the hard drive. You can format the existing hard drive and install XP on it as well. Note: Yes, you can there is no need to remove the hard drive. You can format the existing hard drive and install XP. and also you can install both opreting system single computer. XP and vista both.
I have a toshiba Satellite l40 laptop it came with no operating system and i am planning to install windows xp but when I try to install xp it says no hard drives found
Did you install Windows XP to the hard drive? New hard drives do not come with an operating system; to boot from it, you have to install one on it.
You can install Windows 7 from optical drive (CD, DVD), hard drive (a local copy), network or USB device.
This will not perform a direct upgrade. It will remove everything from the hard drive and install Windows 7. You must re-install all of your programs.
If you are trying to install xp, you have format the hard drive prior installation. If you trying to reinstall Vista, check your hard drive for bad sectors. Make sure that the installation CD/DVD is readable (just try to copy all content on your hard drive).
If it has the minimum RAM and hard drive space, you can.
There is no upgrade path from Windows ME to Windows 2000. You would have to reformat the hard drive to remove ME before you install Windows 2000 from scratch.
It depends on type of Windows 8 installer. If it is update, you need Windows OS preinstalled. If it is full installer, you can install it on a bard hard drive.
Create two partitions in ur hard drive and install Windows '98 on Drive C and install Windows 2000 on Drive D to another partition.