What will Happen with my computer?

Question

I have an Inspiron B130 with Windows Vista Home Basic OS. I just got a new 80 gig Hard drive from dell. What will happen when I put that in and turn the comp on? Will it bring mke back to XP? What will happen?????

Answer 1

Install the drive as directed. You will then have to use the Dell recovery disc and driver disc to get things back to operation. YOu have lost all the data on the old hard drive.

Answer 2

Did you provide Dell with the Service Tag from your machine? Was Vista on the machine when you bought it? What were the circumstances surrounding the need for a new hard drive?

One would think that your new drive would come with Vista if the answers to the first two questions are "yes".

You probably didn't receive recovery CD's with your computer since the manufacturers are placing the burden on end-users to create them themselves. You're in luck if you did, though. If not, create recovery CD's if your old drive is bootable, you have a CD-RW drive, and you have the option to. You should be able to create a factory installation of Vista if the computer came with Vista to begin with and you have a recovery partition.

Answer 3

If you just bought a new drive from Dell for your Notebook and pull out the old drive and replace it with the new drive to increase storage capacity then you will still have the data on the old drive unless it has crashed but you will have to make sure to copy all your data files, docs, emails, etc. to external storage (floppy, CD, DVD) before swaping hard drives for restoring once the new hard drive is installed. But, on the new drive, you will have to reload the operating system and drivers from your Dell restore disks that should have been provided with your laptop at time of purchase.

Back up your data files to external media.
Swap hard drives.
Turn on the laptop and insert the restore CD/DVD and follow instructions. If you run into trouble, If you have another computer - try to contact Dell Live Chat support at their web site.
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/gen/chat?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1

Answer 4

If you correctly add a hard drive (and don't replace your current one), then everything should work fine, and you'll have extra storage space.

If you had a problem with your old one, and Dell sent you a replacement, it would depend on what they agreed to send you (just Windows, or a copy of your old drive with whatever they recovered on it).

If you simply bought a different hard drive, and are going to replace your current drive, you will need to install VISTA onto it (again, assuming you didnt buy it preloaded from Dell)

Answer 5

Two possible things can happen
Either it brings you to the OS installed on there (should be XP mostly) OR it will bring up a NTDLR message (meaning OS damaged or not found)
so yeah thats pretty much will happen...the harddrive stores every information of your computer
its like the brain portion of a human mind where it stores all memories and stuff

Answer 6

When you put the new hard drive in, you will get an error message stating that there is no boot sector. That is because the new drive is completely blank. You will need to use a Dell recovery CD to re-install your operating system.

Answer 7

Well, you should be greeted by the lovely "No Operating System Found" message.

You need to use the install CDs that might not have (probably didn't) come with the computer.

Answer 8

if the old drive is ok.
then just add the new one as a slave.
and format the new drive and store all your stuff pic's,games ect.
so if the os crashes on the other drive all your stuff is safe.