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• How to replace a laptop HARD drive and restore the backup without a Vista startup disk?

  Hello
   
  I need to replace the drive HARD internal of my laptop and have a picture of it, created using the backup feature in Vista, on an external USB HDD. However, I've upgraded to Vista XP via a download online and don't have a Vista disc.

  How can I create a Vista startup disk that will give access to the backup/restore function, which allowed me to restore my backup to the new HARD disk image once I did the replacement? And is there anything else I forget?

  Thanks in advance!

  Mike

  You can borrow a good Microsoft Vista DVD (not Dell, HP, etc).
  A good Vista DVD contains all versions of Vista.
  The product key determines which version of Vista is installed.

  There are 2 disks of Vista: one for 32-bit operating system, and one for 64-bit operating system.

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  It is General info how to make a Vista startup repair disk:

  Download the ISO on the link provided and make a record of repair time it starts.

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu.

  When you have changed that, insert the Bootable disk you did in the drive and reboot.

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

  Link above shows what the process looks like and a manual, it load the repair options.

  NeoSmart containing the content of the Windows Vista DVD 'Recovery Centre', as we refer to him. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and is just a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, we could re-create this installation with downloadable media media freely from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK, several gigabyte download); but it is pretty darn decent of Microsoft to present Windows users who might not be able to create such a thing on their own.

  Read all the info on the website on how to create and use it.

  http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2008/Windows-Vista-recovery-disc-download/

  ISO Burner: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html

  It's a very good Vista startup repair disk.

  You can do a system restart tool, system, etc it restore.

  It is NOT a disc of resettlement.

  And the 32-bit is what normally comes on a computer, unless 64-bit.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Replacing laptop hard drive

  I have a HP Pavilion dv4-2049us laptop, I need to replace the hard drive. The hard drive is a 250 MB drive.  However, I found a replacement on EBay. The drive hard ebay is a 320 MB hard drive. Can I use this 320 MB hard drive in my laptop that originally had a 250 MB hard drive? It (the 320 MB hard drive) will affect the performance of my computer? As do faster or slower? Or is that what you call "modernization"?

  Hello

  Welcome to the Microsoft Community and thanks for posting the question. I see you want to learn more about the laptop hard drive replacement. Let me help you with the issue.

  I suggest that post you this question in the HP support forums here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/

  I hope this helps. If you need further assistance on this particular issue or any other related issue Windows let us know and we will be happy to help you.

  Thank you.

• Satellite Pro L50 - a: how to replace the memory, HARD drive and battery

  I just uploaded 2 new video from Youtube on the L50 - A. Satellite Pro

  The first is a tear down showing how to replace the memory, hard drive and battery (you can also clean the fan if it detects overheating).

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=IG0lW7t92bI

  BTW why they made it so difficult to get just to the battery in this model?

  WARNING - proceed at your own risk and don't forget static precautions!

  Hope they help and if you have any questions let me know.

  + The message was edited: link has been removed ad channel may not +.

  Thanks for these videos. It may be useful to replace the memory, but I think that the owners of the laptop should not open the case. This may void the warranty.
  Be careful about this.

• Can satellite A100-847 - I replace my current HARD drive with a SATA2 HARD drive?

  Hello

  I am currently using a Satellite A100-847 with a 100 GB SATA 5400 RPM HARD drive. I plan to change with a Western Digital WD2500BEKT 250 GB SATA2 16 MB 2.5 inch laptop hard drive 7200 TRM. Is it possible to replace my current HARD drive which is SATA with a one SATA2?

  And if not what is my best option upgrade of the mine to a HARD fast (7200 RPM) disc?

  Hello!

  Yes, you can replace the current drive with a SATA2 HARD disk. You already have a SATA interface, and this means that you can use each HDD with SATA interface.

  I don't know Mr. but as far as I know the Satellite A100 cannot use the speed of SATA1. This means that the new HARD drive maybe won't work with SATA1 speed but there is no significant difference in performance.

  A HARD drive with 7200 RPM is really fast, but don t forget it produces more heat and needs more electric battery. A HARD disk at 5400 RPM is perhaps fast enough for you?

  Good bye

• replacement of internal hard drive HP pavilion dv6

  The model of my laptop is HP Pavilion dv6 6120. My internal hard drive has been damaged, and I want to replace it.

  Can you please hard drives compatible with my laptop?

  I plan to replace it with 'Seagate 500 GB SATA laptop hard drive. Item model number is ST9500423AS Momentus 7200.4... Dimensions of the product is 10 x 7 x 0.9 cm.

  This hard drive is compatible with my laptop?

  If this isn't the case, please tell me what I do?

  Hello

  In this case, you have listed the 500 GB Seagate HARD drive works perfectly

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• 14 - j008TX: the dimensions of the laptop hard drive?

  Hello

  I want to buy an ssd to replace the current hard drive in the laptop... for this I need to know the factor of size and shape; What can fit inside the 14-j008TX N1W05PA.

  Thank you

  Sachin

  Hello

  Standard 2.5 "HDD and SDS have same long dimension and width, single thickness can be the difference (7mm, 9mm, or some thicker).  SSD's are normally more thin (only 7mm), but they will come a plastic or rubber frame making them to 9.5 mm. In short: you can buy any standard form factor 2.5 " SSD for your notebook.

  Kind regards.

• Unable to transfer data from the laptop hard drive external/pendrive.

  Dear Experts,

  Unable to transfer data from the laptop hard drive external/pendrive.

  Each time that tried to transfer meesage seems to the authorization of the administration.

  Kindly help me to solve the problem.

  Concerning

  Hello

  Follow these steps and check:

  To take ownership of a folder

  a. click on the USB key you want to learnand then click on Properties.

  b. click on the Security tab, click Advanced and then click on the tab owner.

  c. click on change. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  d. click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.

  e. If you want that person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the owner of subcontainers and objects replace check.

  f. click on OK.

• Install the operating system after replacing the corrupted hard drive Asus q500a

  The hard drive on my Asus Q500a is bad (he had checked the repairman). They told me that I could replace it (it will just keep failing until at last it dies just) but I have to re - install the operating system. The laptop comes with Windows 7 and I upgraded to 8 when it came out (I think). I don't have a recovery disk.

  How can I replace the corrupted hard drive and re-install the operating system?

  If I need to buy Windows 8, where can I find?

  Would it not easier that I left the repair shop handle it?

  Thank you in advance.

  Hi Kristi,

  Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community and we provide a detailed description of the issue.

  According to the description, I understand that the problem with you want to reinstall the operating system after replacing the hard drive corrupted on the system.

  Certainly, I understand your concern and will try my best to help you.

  I suggest you check the suggestions contained in the Microsoft link below and check if this is useful.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_8-windows_install/replacing-hard-drive-and-re-installing-Windows-8/e8dbfc81-5294-4c94-9276-0f36e0a66e59

  In addition, you can see the suggestions in the link given below.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_8-windows_install/reinstall-Windows-8-after-the-operating-sytem-has/30d47e63-296b-4466-ae9d-4628084541dc

  I hope this information is useful.

  Please let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

  Thank you.

  Jayant

• Laptop Hard Drive 3.5 SATA hard disk (please fast response)

  I have a major problem. There is a HP Compaq DC7600 SFF on Ebay that ive been watching for a while. I have DDR2 RAM for her and a 60 GB laptop hard drive. Im going to be to put Windows Xp on the computer. The problem is to a SATA 3.5 hard drive. Is there an adapter for it? I'll need to get a new drive?

  Here is the link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-DC7600-SFF-Pentium-4-HT-2-8Ghz-512Mb-No-HD-/271103764174?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D3652700529279890050%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D280958745061%26
  Help, please

  Hi Ryan,

  Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Community.

  I suggest using your favorite search engine and look for adapter that will allow you to do. You can also contact the manufacturer and check the availability of these adapters.

  Hope this information is helpful and let us know if you need help with Windows. We will be happy to help you.

• I switch my laptop hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS via a command prompt and now cannot read the disc.

  convert my portable hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS by using the command line.
  After conversion, my pc can not read my laptop hard drive, I check the computer, my protable hd management 1175 GB, my drive only of 500 GB hard probatle, be how to 1175bg? can someone help me? now I can't play my disc hard protable.

  http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4338/002ilq.jpg

  Check this box:

  http://www.tech-FAQ.com/how-to-convert-FAT32-to-NTFS.html

• Replacing an old hard drive causes the system had become unbootable

  OK, here's the scenario.

  Background:
  My old computer with Windows XP has been installed on a hard disk of 40 GB. Later through subsequent updates, I bought the upgrade Windows Vista Professional (retail) and proceeded to install Vista on a brand new 250 GB hard drive. Initially, he had some problems I did a clean install with upgrade to Vista, but then with the help of Mircrosoft support (and several hours of reformats and corrupt the old installation of XP) managed to get Vista installed hard disk new and active. I kept the old drive hard in the computer for about a year, but then noticed that he was starting to get out. I moved all the old information off the drive and recently bought a 1 TB drive to replace. I deleted everything that above with the exception of a few remaining files that won't let me not delete - documents and settings and startup records, respectively.

  Problem:
  When I take the old 40 GB hard drive to reside on Windows XP, my computer when startup is unable to find a drive it can boot from. Under disk management, it is labeled as system - even if the windows directory is on a completely separate drive. My intention was to replace the old hard drive, but I can't get my computer to recognize that it is not on the system drive somehow.

  Question:
  Is it possible to change what hard drive is recognized as a system disk or make sure I can get out the old hard drive and still keep my bootable system?

  Hello Lightningfst,

  Thanks for posting in the Microsoft answers Forum.  First off I would say that, before trying any of the suggestions I'm about to do that you completely back up the contents of the drive with Vista Business as a precaution.  The first suggestion I have is to copy the MBR of the disk of 40G to 250G drive.  It could be as simple as that.  However, when Windows sees a drive and initializes it, Windows writes a serial number of 4 bytes in the MBR (sector 0) of the disc. No matter what partition you create on this disc is then associated with the serial number and the drive letter that the partition is given.

  When you then progress to clone a boot partition on the new disk with a cloning program that does not copy the MBR, the serial number of the old drive is not copied to the new disk, so the new disk retains its serial number Windows has seen before.

  When Windows starts on the new disc, he sees the serial number of the new drive and guess the partition that is on that now belongs to the previously selected drive letter which is almost always not C:. Since installing Windows starts on C:, there is now no C: drive when Windows starts. Trying to connect allows Windows attempts to load the user from C:\Documents and Settings\registry, and the C: drive is not there, so Windows simply to abandon the attempt to logon and closes a session back.

  If this happens to you after copy the MBR of the disk of 40G to 150G Unit let us know and we can help you solve the problems that.  I hope this information is useful.

  Thank you

  Jack

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• Replaced the faulty hard drive

  Hello

  I replaced the defective hard drive on my Presario CQ61 - upgrade to a 500G SATA drive.  Booted up the system repair disc, I created when I bought the computer.  I ask myself a lot of questions about the folder in which to select.  I assumed it would happen automatically.

  Can anyone help please?

  Thank you

  MOFMan

  Hello

  Assuming that you are referring to Windows 7, there is a good guide on the link below for the present - to ensure that if the Disk Image is saved on an external HARD drive, that it is connected before starting.

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/7702/restoring-Windows-7-from-an-image-backup/

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• install a replacement of hp hard drive will void me my warranty?

  install a replacement of hp hard drive will void me my warranty?

  No, it will not void your warranty, and indeed provided by HP that change you faulty components.

  Frank

• Laptop hard drive failures

  My laptop hard drive crashed. It is repaired by a new disc with the approved o/s. It doesn't have a D partition now. Is there any use in my command, recovery disks? I already started to restore applications and data.

  Hello

  I see what you mean

  If media recovery is all benefits for you, depends in large part of the operating system that you use and whether you have any other way to reinstall the operating system in case of accident - for example if you are using Windows 7, you can easily create your own installation media and use the key of 25 characters of your coa label to activate it. A complete list of Windows 7 ISO files here.

  If you are under Windows 8, these files are not so easy to find, so you spend your recovery media order may be worth considering.

  In both cases, the only way that partition D (recovery) can be recreated would be to use a set of recovery media (disk or flash drive) to perform a factory reset as it will not only reinstall the OS, but to recreate the original scores, with only your laptop delivered.

  DP - K