New hard drive - recovery disks

Hello

I have a HP Pavilion dv6-3230us running windows 7(64 bit). I was thinking of upgrading my hard drive to an SSD and I was wondering if I could use recovery discs to reinstall Windows 7 and all drivers. I have a new copy of Windows 7 Professional I could use and went to the site of HP driver but don't know what all that I have to download to get everything to work. I saw that there is an option to order recovery media and I was wondering if that would do the same and bring the computer back as the first day I bought it without having to use my copy of Windows 7 Pro me.

Thank you

Hello:

Unless you buy the same size (in GB) SSD, as your original hard drive, recovery disks do not work.

What I suggest to users in your situation is the following:

Copy the your C:\ drive SWSetup folder to a portable storage device.  Take a look here because it should contain all the program and driver installation files to install on your PC. Some of the installation of the program files will not be considered on the assumption of your laptop and driver page.

If you have trouble finding drivers, just click on all devices that appear in the device with a little yellow Manager! mark.

Then after material ID for them, and we can let you know that you need to install drivers.

If you don't know how to find the hardware device ID, please read the info at the link below.

http://www.DeviceDriverFinder.com/blog/device-drivers/how-to-check-the-hardware-ID-for-a-Windows-device

If you don't want to lose your windows 7 license pro on your PC, you can make your own drive of W7 premium family if you can read the product key of MS 25 characters on the bottom of your PC.

Here's how:

If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.

Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.

Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.

The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.

Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.

Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/

Paul

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