New hard drive. Do I need to uninstall W7 upgrade before installing the initial Vista product so W7 upgrade key will work when reinstalled?

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  If you just want to jump to the conclusion at the bottom, you can see my opinion. If you want to know 'why' Please read the entire post.

  Model No.: m7-j010dx

  Product #: E0K83UA #ABA

  Ships OS: Windows 8 (64-bit)

  Recovery HP part No. Kit: 730336-002 (3 DVDs + extra)

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  With the help of UCRDs sent media recovery media (SSRDs):

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  I inserted the new Blu - ray ODD and distributed recovery with the HP SSRDs.

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  The difference between UCRDs and SSRDs:

  UCRDs provide a glimpse of what is installed and functional both disks are created.

  Version Digest of the player on what is happening with SSRDs to retrieve a PC (before Windows 10):

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  The SSRDs are supported on the new HARD drive installed?

  I don't know, I have an office boy, and I have not tried on this model of laptop.

  If you have / acquire SSRDs, I recover the laptop with the new installed HARD drive and see if it works.  It may or may not.  I don't know what drives were qualified for this laptop.

  If this does not work, the last option is cloning via USB connection (old HARD drive in the PC, new HARD drive connected to a USB 3 via the SATA Adapter (dongle) USB port, install or download software cloning and cloning the old HDD to the new.)   I just did this on the two older Windows 7 computers laptops using a SanDisk Ultra kit.  He has worked on both units.

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  I don't think that the problem is caused from a HARD drive of 1 to a 320 GB HARD drive, as it meets the minimum specs for a complete installation.  I think the problem is related to the use of UCRDs to retrieve and the UCRDs do not have the HARD driver/firmware/application disc.

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  I am an employee of HP...

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