Advent 7090 Reinstall Porblems

Hi, I have a Advent 7090 laptop. I bought it 2nd hand, 6 months ago. I have no back up discs or reinstall software (it's only a back up laptop) but the hard drive has failed. I have a hard drive with XP installed. (Its out of another laptop) but can't get the laptop to recognise the drive. It simply says 'Operating System Not Recognised'. What am I missing. Do I need any extra drivers or Advent only boot menu?? I have a blank hard drive that I bought to install a fresh XP on but can't get the DVD drive to open to install the XP.

The spare hard drive I installed had nothing more than XP on it and is used in my daughters HP 400c without problem.

Any help or direction will be appreciated.

 

Any body have any ideas??

 

Hi, I have now got a recovery cd but the dvd drive isn't recognised by the motherboard / bios. It shows up in the bios screen but when I boot the laptop up, the recovery cd won't work and the laptop simply says, operating system not found and won't let me type anything on screen. Any ideas??