i have a working laptop with windows xp with recovery disk still with me. If I upgrade my HDD, how can I transfer the OS? is the "winxp os" embedded in my HDD? or it is in my recovery disk?
I guess the real question is... Will my recovery disk work in my newly installed HDD?
2007-02-24 23:47:13 · 6 answers · asked by notorious_xx 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
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2007-02-24 23:48:47 · update #1
i dont mind loosing my files, Ihave them on CDs now
2007-02-24 23:57:51 · update #2
You can try using Norton Ghost.
It copies the existing operating system and files on your current harddrive to the new one.
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10
2007-02-24 23:51:01 · answer #1 · answered by jian_te 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Transferring the entire contents of one drive to the other usually isn't a problem and is done as follows:
1) Connect the new drive as a slave
2) Use the software that came with the new drive (or download it from the manufacturer's web site) to perform the copy
3) Mark the new drive as active
4) Swap the drives.
Now in a laptop there's an issue of connecting two drives - most laptops only have the one drive bay. So your options are
1) Perform the copy on another computer by taking both the old and the new and temporarily installing them on another computer
2) Using Norton Ghost with your old disk on another computer
3) Install the new drive as a USB drive (need a special connector for this) and perform a Ghost or copy
2007-02-25 00:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by BigRez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, your recovery disk will still work with a brand new HDD. Of course, you will lose your data and any other programs that you have installed.
Another option would be to buy an external enclosure for your laptop hard drive that connects to the laptop via USB (make sure you buy the right version IDE or SATA for your drive). Then you can use a number of utilities to do a full copy of one hard drive to the other.
2007-02-24 23:54:42 · answer #3 · answered by KCAnswers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recovery disks are to be used to restore your computer back to its original state when it was first bought. You can use the restore cds on a new harddrive and you will be back to the original configuration. If you wish to keep all your information and programs installed on the old harddrive, I would take it to a computer shop and have them clone the drive. Cloning a drive basically means to move a copy of the data from one harddrive to a second one and leaving a perfect copy that operates as the original.
2007-02-24 23:53:24 · answer #4 · answered by Mortis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want an exact copy of your HDD transferred to another HDD, your best bet is to clone it.
The problem with laptops is that you can't usually add a second HDD as a slave drive.
The only way I can see around it, is to remove the HDD from the laptop and install it in a desktop using a 2.5in IDE adaptor.
You'd need to add your new, blank HDD with an adaptor as well.
(about £1.50 each on ebay).
Use something like xxclone or Acronis True Image to clone your old HDD to your new one.
Remove and replace in laptop.
2007-02-25 00:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by 86er 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yup, it should work fine
the recovery disk should see u through
read below to confirm,
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/jive3/thread.jspa?threadID=17847&messageID=65982
sure u have some direction now & all the very best !
2007-02-25 02:36:34 · answer #6 · answered by sεαη 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋