The upgrade of the HHD w\o recovery disk... Will this work?

Can I move the old HHD (c:\) and replace it with a new one, and after that reboot hit the f10 to enter the recovery off the org drive system. ? This will work. I do not have the disk recovery and this idea just poped in any where. Since the org hhd. is partitioned into two disks, IE: C:\ and E:\ (pationtion recovery) if it does not work?    Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Which brings me to another question, if this is feasible, how can I go the patition of recovery to the new drive, so I can re - format the old (C;- & E;------) drive. Thanks in advance to all those who post a reply.

Message edited by DeathHawk152 on 07/16/2009 13:21
Message edited by DeathHawk152 on 07/16/2009 13:21

As long as the recovery has completed successfully and the operating system is installed properly, we can work with that.  You must use diskpart or a utility to remove the (unnecessary if you have a support of recovery) recovery partition, and then expand the C partition to fill the rest of the disc.  The recovery media is supposed to replace all out there - so you have to work in the post-recuperation of partitions, not before he does.

If you are uncomfortable poking around in Diskpart, feel free to- but you may need to re-run the recovery.  Instead, you can use a utility like Partition Magic, but most of those who are paid for.

Edit: Or delete the recovery partition, reduce the size of C, then create another partition to fill the remainder of the disk space.

Message edited by Vaika 08/08/2009 15:05

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