How to install new hard drive

Help! Through another topic; we concluded that I needed a new harddrive for my Dell Laptop. I just received one ….from Singapore…at a great price. Now I need help installing it. I have backed up all my data onto an external drive. I have downloaded all the drivers from Dell Support. I have the installation disk for Windows XP and for MS Office. Could I get some step by step instructions?

OK, so I went a step further and found how to replace the hard drive…very easy. Then I loaded the XP disk and turned on the machine…and got a DOS like prompt with GNU GRUB. I think this is related to the Linux software I used to backup up my data. I tried rebooting by pressing the F12 key to boot from the CD… I got the prompt from where I wanted to boot… I prompted for XP… And got the GNU GRUB version 0.97 How do I get to boot from the XP disk?

So, I went back to the UBUTU disk and booted from that into Puppy, no problem. Don't know what to do next… How do I get to XP?

You know, I think this is the wrong forum for my situation. I was easily able to manually install the hard drive. My problem is in dealing with the software. I've started a new topic in the Windows Forum. Should we close this topic?

Duplicate thread.

This thread has been answered here, so this one needs to be deleted.