I did what u said about the BIOS and it has now booted and off the cd so thanks for your help bro. Thought for a moment I would never sort it. Cheers mate
I just put my new hard drive in my advent Roma 1000 laptop. Put my windows 8.1 pro c.d in then pressed f12 to start the boot. Windows open up and I choice my country and select install. It's starts installing windows then I get past the getting files ready for installation then Features then...