New installation of hard drive without a recovery disk

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  After the new installation of hard drive and a reinstallation of Windows XP I: Drive, Windows Update continually responds with: "Files required to use Windows Update are longer registered or installed on your computer" by clicking on the option to register or reinstall results by bike to the same error.

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  Windows XP SP3.

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  Windows XP SP2. (According to THE level of SP)

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  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?CC=UK&LC=en&softwareitem=PV-60484-2

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  How to troubleshoot a SP3 Installation fails.

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• Satellite Pro A210 - error recovery after a new installation of HARD drive

  Hello

  I have a satellite pro 210 (bios v1.6) has died the HARD drive.

  I bought a new WD Scorpio Blue 250 GB HARD drive and ran the reinstall drive (I've done exactly this for a friends Equium a month or so back and all worked flawlessy!)

  Everything worked fine until the first re-boot, went through the usual stuff:
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  Hello

  The SATA driver is not necessary if you use the Toshiba Recovery disk because the image on the recovery disk contains the SATA driver.
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  In your case, I recommend setting the BIOS settings by default and start over once the recovery procedure.
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  > I'm trying to avoid having to buy something expensive.
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  You can buy the Microsoft installation disc and install the clean version. You must purchase a valid license for it.
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• Re: Satellite U400-11 q with Vista has new HARD drive but no recovery disk

  Hello

  Before starting a very important message: I do not usually work with pc... :-) At my work we have an IT Department for our PC :-))

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  Hello:

  Yes... It works fine for me.

  Here's the source Web page.  Select the download link of W7 Home Premium x 64 from there...

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  Any help much appreciated.

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  Any help much appreciated.

  Hey Paul_Dunbar

   
  You can try to make records of the damaged hard drive recovery
  ask hp how
  or buy a set of vista home recovery disks
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• How to install a new hard drive and create recovery disks before installing the new drive?

  HP Pavilion Dv5 - 2077 cl/entertainment laptop
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  Hello-

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  I'm about to order a new hard drive from Newegg.com, and I would like to know if it is difficult to replace a hard drive in a laptop, or if I should have Geek Squad do it for $50. In addition, I don't think I have the disk for the operating system that came with my computer, how do I order that HP and how much is it?

  And, last but not least, is there a message or a video with instructions on how to install a hard drive and operating system?

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  Hello

  Yes, that's exactly what you do

  Kind regards

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• My G62-340US, I just had to replace the hard drive. My recovery disks appear to be compromised. Help

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  Hello:

  As far as I know, you would have to buy a whole series of new.

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  Here's how...

  Download the ISO file from W7 Home Premium 64 bit from the Microsoft link below.

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  Make sure that you got the file from xx GB 3. integers download, in rare circumstances, you get a full notification of download, but you do not receive the entire file to download.

  After you download the ISO file, you can burn it to a DVD using the ISO file burn option on your DVD burning program, or you can use this tool to transfer the ISO to a flash USB DVD or 4 GB drive.

  The tool also performs the bootable media.

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

  Then go to the care of your laptop and driver page for available software and drivers that you need.

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• Broken HARD drive and no recovery disk

  Hello, everyone!

  My husband bought a new laptop a few months before and the fact that US aircraft not only any what rescue DVD, we na not create a restore disc, understand us, that we had a lot of time... Except that yesterday one of the dogs was caught in the power cord, and the laptop fell on the floor. Of course it wouldn't restart and the BIOS would not recognize the HARD drive.

  Using an adapter, I was able to connect it to my own laptop and all data and files are displayed. My question is, being able to access my own computer HARD drive, I can create a disc of recovery there and how? Cause when I select this function on my computer, it does not give me the ability to choose which drive I want to create the disk, it assumes I want to do it from my C: drive.

  Thanks in advance.

  > My question is, being able to access my own computer HARD drive, I can create a disc of recovery there and how?
  As far as I know that something like this will not work. For recovery, multimedia creation, you need to use preinstalled Toshiba recovery media creator tool. Saved on the HARD drive recovery image is marked with so-called markers and this tool can find the exact position of the image stored on the HARD drive. Please note that it works under normal circumstances. When your HARD drive is connected as external, this tool can not find it and recovery media is not possible.

  In my opinion, you have a problem with your machine. You know if the HARD drive is not properly recognized that I'm afraid that your laptop has a serious hardware problem and it must be checked by the Toshiba service provider.

  I mean, you can have a recovery media, but it is useless if the HARD drive is not recognized by the system.

• Satellite L955-100 - HARD drive crash / no recovery disk

  Hi all

  I think I have a huge problem, so I would like your advice.
  Yesterday, my HARD drive crashed and a noise 'click of death '.

  My warranty has already expired, and of course I did not the recovery discs...

  I know that it was stupid to forget something, but even if I would like to ask you if you have another solution to my problem.

  Already, I thought about buying a new HARD drive, but then my problem is still not having access to my Windows 8 (which was on the recovery partition).

  Thanks in advance,

  Michel

  In my opinion, you should simply replace the HARD drive and need to use the recovery disk that you could order at Arvato Services
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  Maybe you want to increase the performance of the computer laptop buying an SSD?
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