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• my computer failed, I installed the HDD in an older computer that I own

  my computer failed, I installed the HDD in an older computer that I own, and now it asks me to reregistar windows but never gives me the opportunity to enter the product key that also always shows up in windows

  Hello

  It depends on the type of license you have, as to whether you can transfer it or not.

  Pre-installed Licenses OEM (HP, Acer, etc.) and the Microsoft System Builder OEM licenses are tied to the first machine that they are installed on and channels of license when this machine dies.

  OEM licenses are not transferable.

  If you have purchased your own license for sale retail of Windows and installed yourself, yes you can transfer it to another computer.

  Retail licenses are transferable.

  See you soon.

• Can I install a HDD IDE in HP A6700Y

  I have a HP A6700Y (REF # NC686AA #ABA) who needs a new primary HARD drive. I want to test it with an IDE HDD I have on hand. Is it possible to install a HDD IDE in this PC? If it is possible, where the controller ports are located on the map? I couldn't see the cables in usual tablecloth or sheets of food for an IDE drive. I'm not familiar with the new SATA technology. Would appreciate some advice.

  Thank you

  Paul,

  Thank you for your response.  The blue connector and one above and to the right are like connectrors IDE. There are four connectors of available power. Could you suggest a resource in order to confirm that these are indeed the IDE connectors? I don't see no labelling around them. I'll try an IDE Ribbon and see if it fits.

• Install old HDD to the pc with the new HARD drive and operating system different?

  Hi, I recently ripped my old laptop that no longer works, after buying a newer laptop 4 years ago. The new laptop has Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed while the old machine had Windows Vista installed. I want to put the old HDD in my new machine to extract some files that I want to keep and possibly use this particular drive as a disc of extra storage without having to turn it into a portable device. Would that work or would I meet problems with him? It would be just a plug & play this sort of thing (as the old HDD already has an operating system installed) or the old drive (vista) would cause the new drive (win7) fails at startup?

  And sorry if this has already been covered. I searched through the questions asked previously and has not really found a similar job.

  You can use your old drive, but you should check that the "Boot order" is the most recent Player listed before the old drive. If need be exit and save your BIOS boot becomes.

  Next

  After you have started since the new drive, you may need to take ownership of the files you need to copy.

  To take ownership of a file or folder

  1. open Windows Explorer and locate the file or folder you want to take charge.
  2. right click on the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.
  3. click on advanced and then click the owner tab.
  4. click on edit and then do one of the following:
  To change the owner to a user or group that is not listed, click other users and groups and enter the object name to select (examples), type the name of the user or group and then click OK.

  To change the owner to a user or a group is listed in the change owner to box, click the new owner.

  5. (optional) to change the owner of all subcontainers / folders and objects in the tree view, select the Replace owner of subcontainers and objects check box.

  Then use 'Disk management' to delete all existing partitions and reformat the old drive.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Satellite M70-151 - not possible to install new HDD

  Hello

  I have a problem with my Satellite M70-151. bunch of old hard drive (100 GB Hitachi) reached the Windows XP screen then just ends with a blue screen a turn off laptop, immediately. I had to restore my data with an application file-rescue of another PC. It was not possible to start from old hard drive yet.

  Then I bought a Western Digital SATA II 250 GB hard drive that put my Windows XP CD in DVD player installed and tried to start. The laptop turns off as soon as the laptop computer tried to access the HARD disk.
  Thought, it was question of SATA II disk and tried a Samsung 160 GB Sata I - same result.

  BIOS recognizes the correct drives.

  If I try to boot from old hard drive, it shows the issue I mentioned first, but as before it reaches the Windows XP Boot screen before moving on to the blue screen before turning off the laptop. So start goes further than the boot with new hard drives

  The Windows XP CD I used is not the restore CD that came with the laptop, but a normal license.

  The heat is not a problem, I cleaned the CPU fan there is enough space to breathe the cold air mobile, the temperature is ok.

  * My questions are: *.

  Is there any special application running on laptops satellite, like special software of Toshiba, perhaps Backup, should I be aware of?
  What I need to preformat the hard drive, Toshiba-Hardware will recognize the hard drive?

  It would be great to get help on this issue, because I'm out of ideas. Thanks in advance!

  André

  Hello Andrew

  This behavior is very strange. I have some old Satellite M70-159 with 100 GB HARD drive. I also tested how it will work with a 250 GB HARD drive and all is well.
  On two drives, I have installed WXP using the Toshiba recovery image.

  I answer your two questions No. to install Windows XP Home edition on this model of laptop you don't need some special Toshiba application or a piece of software.
  HDD should be recognized correctly by the BIOS and the Windows XP Home edition installation procedure should work well.
  What you can try is to set the BIOS to the default settings and try again.

  The strange thing for me is that judgment. The blue screen tells me that there may be some serious hardware problem, the HARD drive controller might be. It's really not easy to say with certainty what can be the problem.

• Can I install new HDD on the Oem computer?

  original title: product activation

  my hard drive makes very strange sounds, I think that its on its way. I have vista installed oem (I have the dvd) I would be able to adapt to a new HDD and reinstall?

  Hello

  Yes; under the rules of OEM, you can replace the hard drive and reinstall the operating system on the same computer.

  This is the information on the rules:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/OEM/en-GB/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_faq.aspx#fBid=iePP5a9JaWJ

  And if you have problems with the reactivation, take the option phone, do not follow the guests of the car, but brace yourself for a real person explain to the.

  "How to activate Vista normally and by Activation of the phone '

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/84488-activate-Vista-phone.html

  See you soon.

• Install a HDD 3TO in an XPS 8300 gives me 746GB

  I know it's a popular topic on the internet, but I have not found enough of my answer. Install a WD 3TO HDD in my machine XPS 8300 WIndows 7 Home Premium 64 - bit as a secondary drive. Not my bootable disk. BIOS, Dell A03, recognizes this. Intel RST sees it as a 3 TB drive. Initialized in with a GPT disk management, but it shows up as 746G. I would like to put my finger on it until I have start the download and upgrade system software. Any help is appreciated.

  Tony

  Hi Tbob79,

  You must update the Intel RST. It can't hurt to update your BIOS too.

• How do I reinstall Windows (installed new HDD) 8

  My laptop is dead needs a new drive hard of... My Windows 8 is an OS upgrade.  How can I get the 8 Windows installed if I do not have the older versions of the Windows ME/XP/Vista/7.  They were all existing operating system upgrades

  Hi Tinktoy,

  If all the windows are an upgraded version, and if you don't have any DVD or product key, you will need to purchase a full version of Windows 8. You need not a previous version of Windows installed, and this would require the OEM System Builder version.

  To install a Windows 8 upgrade version, you must already have Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP installed on your PC. If you have Windows 7 DVD and a product key, you can install Windows 7 on the new hard drive and later upgrade to Windows 8 later we can do phone activation.

  See also the link that talks about the same scenario:

  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/how-do-i-install-windows-8-pro-to-a-new-hard-drive/3bd62e48-7419-4b91-a562-d1cc42498963?msgId=3351b25f-ffea-4f5a-97da-c9ae00a8e17d

  Let us know the status of the issue. If you need help, please after return. We will be happy to help you.

• Help! How to install a HDD IDE on Compaq CQ5700Y (apricot MOBO - SATA all)...

  Hi all. I read a ton of posts here about people who want to install their old drives in their new computers, but so far, none have addressed the specific problem I have. I have a Compaq CQ5700Y with a mini card mother (H-apricot-RS780L-Μatx) which is SATA ONLY and I want to install my old IDE hard drive inside.

  The drive I want to put is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 Ultra ATA 250 GB and thought it would be easy enough to do if I just buy an adapter to connect the old hard drive. So I bought an IDE HDD 3.5 SATA Serial ATA converter adapter which I have easily set up power and data cables, set the jumper on the drive master and plugged cable SATA him on the unused port SATA3.

  I booted up and heard the old HDD begin to turn: he was alive! But unfortunately when I entered the BIOS it did not there even if all SATA ports are enabled and should have automatically detected it. I thought that maybe it can just be the rider on it, so I tried each of the pin position, master, Cable Select and slave (no jumper at all) but still nothing.

  In my recent successful attempts, I played musical slots with the SATA ports between the old HDD, new HARD drive and the DVD drive, but still nothing... I'm completely stumped. I know that the other option is to buy an external enclosure, but I'd really like to keep the drive in the case of the tower. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you

  Eric

  I see your motherboard has two PCI Express x 1 expansion slots and you mentioned that one of them has a graphics card in it.  If you have another free location, have you considered installing a PCI Express x 1 IDE controller card?  They cost about $15.

• Portege 3490, to install new HDD with windows xp ready?

  My hard drive failed recently on my portege 3490. I bought a 20 GB seagate replacement hard drive. I installed Windows XP pro by connecting the drive (via adapter) to my office and ran the installation cd.

  I thought that I could then just mount the drive in the Portege and be good to go. However when I turn right away on the system asks me to insert the disc system.

  I don't have a floppy drive and my single cd is a USB and I can't use it to start.

  Someone at - it any ideas how I can get this working?

  I plugged my other laptop (Toshiba no) with the same drive and it booed immediately. Thanks for your help

  [Edited by: admin on 27 June 05 07:03]

  Hello

  Unfortunately I have no drivers list, but on the download from Toshiba site you will find about 18 different drivers for your device using BONE of W2000. Check it on http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com

  As far as I know, it won't be easy to do something without floppy drive. I have no much experience with the Portege series but you can try to make two partitions on the second, you can copy the OS disk and start the installation of this partition. Even if you do this, you must start the unit with the startup disk.

• Installing WXP - HDD not visible on the Satellite A200-1N1

  I have Satellite A200-1N1 and I need to install Windows XP, but when I boot from the CD for installation, back windows do not detect any hard disk and it will ask to press F3 to exit.

  Can someone help me?

  On this forum, you can find so many comments about it. All you need to do is check the Satellite section or use the search option.

  A very interesting thread on this, you can find here.

• Install new HDD - recover your drive work?

  The hard drive in my L500-1DT seems to have a flaw.

  I tested another a L500 HARD drive and it works fine.

  It crashes when you try to start, use recovery to start (at the point it detects the HARD drive) and when you use the CD of recovery at the beginning of the process.

  If I buy another hard drive, can I use the disk provided by toshiba again to install windows?

  I think not I suspect the drive just points to a directory to install from the current hard drive, but some clarity would be great.

  Thank you
  Mike

  > If I buy another hard drive, I can use the disk provided by toshiba again to install windows?
  Yes you can. There is no restriction to the HARD drive. Do it.

• Qosmio G10-100: install second HDD & get the mounting bracket

  I would like to install a second hard drive. Instructions or general advice on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

  I am looking to buy a HITACHI T7K500 Desktar 2.5 "- 320 GB Interface: SATA 3.0 GB/s serial & parallel Ultra ATA 133." Is it compatible?

  I need help to obtain a mounting bracket for this upgrade or even compatible media information?

  THX in advance,

  Hi Chris

  Sorry, but I think that 320 GB is a bit too much. You n t think so? I really put t think the HARD drive will be recognized by the BIOS correctly.

• Satellite A200 - 14 d - how to install second HDD?

  Last weekend, I decided to get a second hard drive on my computer. I read manual and there saw that Pocket number 7 is for second HARD drive.
  I decide to take my computer to specialist.

  Looking model, he told me that editing another HDD is no big problem. So I bought it. But when he opened this case (with hdd2) it looked like ghost. He told me that there is not any place for it that it is the first time that he saw this show. ALE here some links with photos:

  1 model

  http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3149/model.jpg

  2 software documentation

  http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2747/Instrukcja.jpg

  3 disc HARD 1 (this good)

  http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3632/hdd1q.jpg

  4 HDD2
  http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9984/hdd22.jpg
  http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2268/hdd2a.jpg

  The search for your quick response

  Hello

  I think the case is clear your phone isn't designed for a second HDD if you don t have a second HARD drive connector in the second HARD drive Bay.

  The point is that some laptops A200 are designed for a second HDD and so not all models have a second connector but all a second HDD bay.
  As I see in your pictures that you don t have a second connector HARD drive and laptop can use a second HDD.

• Satellite A200: Cannot install XP - HDD not visible

  Hello!!

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A200 and im not happy with vista!
  I have a version of windows xp to my my old laptop, but I can't install it, at the beginning of the instalation xp dosent recognize my drive sata hard
  I know that I nedded a floopy with drivers, but it's not portable did obtain no floppy drive!
  How can I install windows xp on that laptop! ???

  Most tried to make a version of win xp with drivers with nlite sata, but it did not work!

  Hello

  I recommend the other discussions of the forum on the same topic.
  Found this one for example:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=26040

  You need to install the Intel Matrix storage manager before proceeding with the installation of XP.
  As the user above has already suggested the program called nLite can be useful to integrate the necessary driver for the XP CD.

  Greetings