I have an Asus k60 and just put a new Western Digtal Scorpio black drive in. When I try to run the recovery process with my CD, it gets to about 9/10s through then an error message comes up saying it cannot communicate with the hardware. ?????
Did you format the new hard drive? Most hard drives ship un-formatted (atleast in my experience). Usually windows will not even see the hard drive until it is formatted. Try booting from a linux live cd or hirens boot cd, and format the hard drive. You can also use a sata-usb kit to format it from another PC.