Replacing a hard drive on a laptop
By radairc
@radairc (98)
United States
January 16, 2009 12:45pm CST
I want to replace the hard drive on my laptop. If I do this, will my system restore disc that came with the computer work to load the operating system onto the hard drive? Does anyone have any tips or pointers on this process for me? It would all be greatly appreciated.
3 responses
@JackOLantern (48)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Actually, I believe it will...I've had more than a few hard drives on this computer, and more than one I formatted with the restore disc. Granted, depending on the make of the hard drive and what not, you MIGHT have an issue. But I don't think so.
@JackOLantern (48)
• United States
16 Jan 09
I say go for it, if you have issues Tess will be more than happy to slap me around for ya. But I highly doubt you would. However, I would recommend investing in a copy of XP Service Pack 2 (especially Professional if you can find it at a good price) once you got monies again. Don't go with Vista, at least not for a while yet.
@michael_nonan (384)
• Philippines
17 Jan 09
If you will do this please see this video first. this will do a lot of things for you. they also cover extensive insights on what and what not to be done.
first, your restore files are in a partition of your hard drive. don't be fooled if you have two hard drive on your "my computer". it's just one physical drive but divided into two. one of the partition stores your recovery files. if your reformat your whole physical drive or replace your HDD, you have the chance of not starting the recovery on the start of your PC.
heres the link: http://revision3.com/systm/harddriveswap
hope it helps
