I'm not woried about loosing anything on my old hard drive so thats not a problem, but I'm wondering how get my operating system on the new drive. Would I just use the rescue disks that came with the laptop, or would I have to buy a complety new operating system?
2006-07-20 05:56:11 · 7 answers · asked by kollee 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The rescue disc is an operating system disk, usually designed to recognize the hardware so it will only work with that company's computers. Most of the Windows install is self-explanitory and the key code is on the sticker somewhere on your laptop or with the disk. Setup will stop and ask you what partition to put Windows on, and a new hard disk will have none. Use the option to create a new partition and then format it. If it is a brand new drive the Quick Format option is all you should need.
When you get done you are going to need all the updates since the time the rescue disk was produced, so Window's Update may need to run several times to bring you up to date after.
There should be a 2nd disk with all the drivers on it, these may be needed for your sound chip, video chip, network drivers, etc. Also your touchpad drivers would be on that. That disk should also bring you through step by step.
You will also be required to call microsoft to re-activate Windows.
2006-07-20 07:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
You may use the rescue disk.
You are legally entitled to reuse the operating system as long as you dont use the same license on more than one computer at the same time. So if you were to throw your current laptop away and buy another laptop, you have the right to reuse your current copy of the OS.
Keep in mind that the rescue disks are preconfigured for use with your make and model of laptop and all of the accessories that came with your laptop.
Good luck.
2006-07-20 13:04:22 · answer #2 · answered by creskin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that disc you are talking about has the install for Windows on it, you should be able to use the disc that came with your laptop to reinstall Windows (etc) onto the new hard drive. Normally you put the CD into the CD drive and boot the laptop. It should start the setup program for Windows. You can test this with the current drive as long as you stop it within the first couple screens before it actually writes anything to the hard drive.
2006-07-20 13:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will work fine... you may have to reboot with the new drive in and go into the bios settup and load bios defaults...only if theres a problem though....when you go to load the operating system if you get an error that halts your install...load bios defaults. Also its remotely possible there could be a problem if the new harddrive is a different size than the old one...but most likely not.
2006-07-20 13:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously man, wut kind of idiot are you?
Of course you are going to have to get a Operating system disk to put on it - im surprised you didn't think about that.
Those rescue disks MIGHT have a operating system that is available to install, but since i don't know, i can't be quite sure.
2006-07-20 13:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by Trash Can Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that depends on wether or not how important this stuff is and weather or not u want a clean start i would go with a clean sys ans restart...
2006-07-20 13:00:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the website of the computer company and search for tutorials
2006-07-20 13:11:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋