Re recovery disk - install the OS after upgrade HD

I bought my HP a little more than a year, and the hard drive just died. Of course, the HP warranty was only good for a year, even if the warranty of the manufacturer for this HD model, when purchased separately, is three years. It would be nice if HP has extended the term of warranty even for components which he uses as the manufacturers of these components, but I digress.

So my only choice was to buy a new HD. I decided to update as long that I had to reinstall the OS anyway, but when I tried to reinstall the operating system using the recovery discs, I received a message that the installation could not proceed because the size of HD did not match what my computer was built with.

It has to be a way around it. If it does not exist, it is a horrible feature that prevents people from upgrading their systems, or recover their systems in the event of a failure of the HD. If there is no work-around, then my only option is to purchase a retail version of Windows 7 and other software that came with my computer. It's probably $300 in the software, as well as the replacement of HD $200. Ouch. If this is the case, and I knew about this beforehand, I would have never bought a HP.

Thanks for any info.

_glitch_ wrote:

HP Pavilion Elite e9250t

Prod #: AW019AV #ABA

The OS is Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

The original HD was a 640 GB Western Digital HDD (WD6400AAKS)

The new HD is a 120 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD

Hello _glitch_, I understand your frustration with the whole restore HP Recovery disk.

There may be an option to work around this problem, but it would need to buy another HDD 640 GB that you were originally in the HP system, but continue to use your new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 120 GB drive.

Here a link to the OCZ Forum where information to make a disc image of Windows 7.

Here a link to NewEgg where the 640 GB Western Digital HDD (WD6400AAKS) can be found. (Note the comments)

You can buy this new hard drive and install it. Then use your restore HP Recovery disk set to recover your operating system and applications.

This should put your system back as it was when shipped. After having updated your system software and all personal preferences, you could then make an image of the WD hard drive and save this image on another hard drive, or you can create another partition on the WD hard drive to store the image C: on.

If you choose this approach, you must leave the installed WD hard drive and install the new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 120 GB so the picture C: drive is accessible from the new partition hard disk WD.

You then couuld use the Bootdisk you did in the process of hard disk image, to Prime the system for, and then select the source where the image of the original hard drive has been kept on the new partition on the WD hard drive, and use that image for installation on the new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 120 GB drive.

The new WD hard drive could be used as a backup hard drive, so you lose no money, having to buy the new WD hard drive.

I know that all this is a bit extreme, but just an option to recover your operating system and applications and be able to use your new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 120 GB drive and gain a new WD drive for backup purposes.

I have the impression is the reason why HP does not allow these restore disc HP Recovery be used on a hard drive of different ability, to prevent users from making copies of the software on a different drive system hard.

Just some thoughts.

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