Laptop Drive unable to install windows?

[oiCorrupt]

Hey guys I've decided to take to the forums for I am a bit confused as to what exactly went wrong. I was given an older laptop (Dell Inspiron N5110) and planned to possible upgrade it. However firstly, I decided to use 'WipeDrive Six' and wipe the hard drive, keep in mind the computer was working completely fine prior to the wipe.

After wiping the drive I rebooted with my installation disk of Windows 10. When I went to actually install windows, it was not letting me install it on the hard drive. It says "Drive 0; unallocated space". After trying some troubleshooting through some google ideas nothing was working, so I began to wonder did the drive fail? Surely this wasn't the reason for just prior to the wipe it worked perfectly.

I then burned a copy of the SeaTools DOS HDD Checker and popped that it to find out that it couldn't detect any hard drive. This meaning that the hard drive did fail and was done for. I guess my big question here is, how did the drive just poop out? It worked before the wipe, so did the wipe kill the drive?
After many different tries to get something working I am out of luck. I have tried putting back the wipe drive six disc in and it doesn't detect a hard drive. Obviously the drive is gone I get that much. With this all being said Im going to purchase an SSD to throw in this bad boy: Would THIS be suitable?

Thanks so much for taking the time to read and maybe sharing upon some of your knowledge.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there.

Hey there, I'd suggest that you try the HDD with a different computer as well, if possible, just to make sure that it's really dead. Basically what might have happened is that the drive might have been having issues before you wiped it out even if you didn't notice anything strange while checking it out. Sometimes when a drive has physical faults of some sort, the more it's being used the greater is the chance of failure and I imagine that if this wipe was some sort of low level format, it probably went through each individual sector and this extensive scanning and wiping might have made things worse. However, as already mentioned, this is just a guess.

As for the SSD you've chosen, I think you should have no issues with it. It has the same form factor and interface as the HDD, so it should be OK.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD