New installation of hard drive on Y510

I recently bought a bigger hard drive for my Y510 and I wonder how I'll be able to install it because the computer did not come with a recovery disk as would a dell. And I guess there is no way to add the recovery on the new disc either partition? I have tried searching with no will. Any help would be great...

That's exactly what I did, and it worked like a charm... have not tried restoring to a single key, but I clone the partition of the same size. I encountered an error while trying to boot Windows, but there is nothing that the Vista recovery environment could not fix it for me in a minute or two. I think that the manual fix for this would be to start at a command prompt or from the recovery console and use the commands /fixboot or /fixmbr to take into account the reorganization/resizing partitions.

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