Messed up hard drive maybe need help?

[woahwoahwilly]

So my new AMD APU build has a 250 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. When I boot the computer, the light for the hard drive does not light up even though it is connected (yes, my Rosewill case came with a HDD light). I can't boot off of it. I have not got an optical drive or flash drive. Do I need to have one of those to download Windows? That's just a question, though - if my hard drive light is not turning on, does that mean that the Western Digital hard drive I got off of Newegg for $21.00 a faulty one, or maybe I even got scammed? (I actually don't know if you can get scammed, but hey, I got a used motherboard on my first attempt, so I guess you can sell stuff there?)

 

[bjornl]

How are you thinking you can put an OS on a PC without a installation media?

Your HD not lighting up might mean it is having an issue, but there is no way to test it without booting off of something.