Upgrade SSD using recovery discs: warnings?

Similar Questions

• How do I create using recovery disc installed Vista - Satellite L300-190

  Can u please help me.
  If I had the factory installed default windows vista, then how to create the recovery disk and can also create usb recovery drive, while I was able to boot my system with usb?

  And also if I m even have another model of machine, then I can use the recovery disk in the other machine with the same model and OS. ???
  as for now, I have two same machines toshiba Satellite L300-190 model.

  Waiting for your response.

  I think that this has been discussed much time here in the forum.

  You can create the recovery disk using the Toshiba recovery disc creator!
  This tool must be preinstalled on your laptop if the laptop was equipped with HARD drive recovery option.

  You can also try to restore the laptop using the recovery of HARD drive option.
  You must press the F8 key during switching on laptop and I then have to choose the option called fix my computer. Then new window should open, and you could choose the Toshiba recovery.

  If you cannot use the two procedures (disk recovery HARD and Toshibas recovery disk) then you can order the new CD from here:
  https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

  All that s

• Satellite 1800-400: CD Rom is not working / can't use recovery discs

  Hello

  I have a satellite 1800-400. The cd present in Device Manager, but it does not recognize the cd is in the drive. I need to use the recovery cdsas the system was damaged virus etc. Is there a way I can work around the problem of cd player.

  Thank you

  Hugues.

  Hi Hugh,.

  When you try to start the laptop from the CD made in fact tru to access the CD-ROM or it directly boot from HARD drive?

  If the notebook is actually an attempt to boot from the CD but do not then it can mean that you CD-ROM is defective or that the recovery disc itself is damaged in some way.

  HTH

• replacement hard drive and using recovery discs made by myself.

  HPdv6 mobile 2119tx. After replacing hard drive and loading the recovery discs (which I did) successfully, now it reboot something messages cannot locate the disc or load bootable disc (sorry, don't remember the exact wording, but back to the beginning). Could this be because I replaced a 650 GB drive with a 500 GB drive.

  Hello:

  Normally you cannot use recovery on a smaller hard disks.

  But you should be able to boot from the first disc of recovery at least and see what happens.

  To do this, you must have the first disc in your dvd player.

  Restart the PC and at the beginning of your homescreen HP, tap key ESC then choose one time start in the menu.  Since then, select the DVD drive and continue.

  If the ESC key method does not work, press the F9 key instead.

  It depends on the type of BIOS in your PC (normally according to his age) which key you need to type.

• using recovery discs

  I have a compaq S3100AN computer that I got from a friend. I formatted the hard drive and I want to use the recovery discs, he did to restore the system.  When I get to the second disc, it stops at APP\i386\APP31322.exe and runs over and over again trying to get the file. After a few minutes it will say abandoned or stop or something similar.

  I did once and managad to continue with other drives up to the arrival, but when I tried to restart the computer, it says it could not find the operating system and would not start.  I tried again with the same result but this time I can't go beyond disk 2 and it works for a while before getting an abortion without continuing on request. When he finally to have an abortion, it has two options, yes or no.  Which one should I click to bypass this file and continue on?

  Then towards the end of disk 5 or 6 it says error2: \preload\windows w32 missing and later, it says error 2:\C:\windows\cache\mbr.dll missing.  Maybe that's why it wouldn't start when it ended.  These are on CD - R discs, so I can't change all the files or change them, do you have any idea what I can do about it.

  I just install windows home edition from a cd of windows but it does not install the compaq drivers and, even if it starts successfully, if I restart it will lose all the necessary drivers for the video card and network etc, so that it operated on 16 colors and does not connect to the internet.

  Any help would be appreciated, thank you, Allan

  Allen,

  Just follow what Paul said of the to do and everything should be OK.

  If you still want to try the recovery disks, make sure that they are free of scratches, grease and finger prints. Who can help solve the difficulties of the disc to these problem spots. (Not recommended, but I found that using a very soft automotive polishing compound that is approved for use on plastic/plexiglas works well to clean a CD or DVD)

  Frank

• Using recovery discs that have been put in place on another PC

  I have 3 computers HP Compaq Pro SFF x 6200.

  I have only created a disk of recovery for one of them.

  Now, I need to restore the other two PC (they no longer have the available recovery partition).

  How is the Windows 7 numbe series registrations affected if I restore this way or if it is not serious. Should I do a sort of regstry edit to change the serial number later?

  Thank you

  Monk

  One set of "Recovery disc" made on a specific model / product number should work on any other computer in the same exact model / product number. While each computer can have a unique Windows product key on the COA affixed to the computer, this key is not used by HP to activate Windows.

  HP and all the other major computer manufacturers generally use a system known as OEM SLP (System locked pre-ignition). This system allows many (dozens or hundreds of thousands) computers to be preactivated by using the same exactly OEM SLP key and OEM SLP certificate with a corresponding SLIC table in BIOS of the computer.

  You don't need to change anything, because that's the way the process is designed.

  Please click the White Star of KUDOS to show your appreciation

• I can't recover my system (DV6000) using recovery discs after replacing the card mother/HARD drive

  I have a DV6408nr (windows vista Home premium) I had to replace the motherboard and hard drive. When installing the new motherboard (same part No.: 443775-001) and insert the recovery (bought from HP) discs that I have, I received an error message stating that the PC could not be recovered using my disks. The serial numbers on the label service and in my bios do not match. When I entered the serial number of my bios in HPpartsurfer, he said that the system is a DV6449us. I already checked my RAM and HARD drive is brand new/not formatted. I used these recovery discs (manufacturer: 483905-003/483906-003) successfully before on other flags of DV series. Is there a reason why these discs should not work on two motherboards in the same system with these similar specs? What should I do to get my system recovered?

  The number of the motherboard and other show information in the bios of the new Commission?

  The numbers do not match the recovery disks or information is missing in the bios.

  If it's really a mismatch, then you will need to find the good recovery disks or use a Dell installation disk operating system and use the product key from the sticker on the laptop to get activated, and then manually install the drivers.

  If the bios tattoo is damaged or missing information only a used HP Center can then fix the tattoo.

  check your private messages

• System Restore Win7 without success using recovery discs

  I have a Vaio VPCCW23FX under Windows 7 Home Premium. My original hard drive Vaio is dying (after a little more than 2 years). I tried to create recovery discs from my laptop, but that the process has failed. Sony support said that my recovery partition must have gotten corrupted and I need to buy the discs at home. Very well, I did. I also bought a new Western Digital 1 TB portable hard drive (same cache size and speed as the drive in the laptop, just more storage space). I WAS able to create a disc Image system to my laptop, even if I couldn't create recovery discs.

  The new hard drive installation was quick and easy and I had no problem. The process of recovery has been unsuccessful to date, however. It seems TO be going smoothly and successfully and run all 4 disks and nine copied files on the hard drive. I get to the end and it is said to remove the disk and restart the computer to complete the installation.

  As it is start I see some messages that look like this market (including the update of the register, installation of devices). Then at the bottom it says: 'The Installer applies system settings' and an error message box is displayed. It is said: "Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on a hardware on this computer." The only option is to click OK, how the computer restarts.

  When the computer restarts after this error message, the same things happen but I get a new error message: "Windows cannot complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, run the Setup again. "Again, the only option is to click OK, that makes the computer to restart, which makes this error message displayed, etc.

  I can hit F8 as soon as the VAIO appears logo and a menu of Windows recovery. I can boot into safe mode, I can choose to go in recovery mode, I can even get to a command prompt and see what is on the drive.

  There is a good bit of information on the disc (about 20 GB or more, if I remember correctly). Based on the directories that are here, it SEEMS like Windows is there and should work... but it doesn't and it won't tell me why.

  I can run the Startup Repair, and he tells me that it can not detect a problem. She even said, "State the start indicates that the OS booted successfully."

  I tried to put in the System Image disc I created, but the Startup Repair and recovery system do not seem to recognize it.

  I have screenshots of the various messages and info from the command prompt. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. Again, what are the recovery discs for Windows 7 that I ordered directly from Sony, own my laptop model, and the only difference in the computer, it is that I bought a 1 TB drive to replace the dying 500 GB drive.

  Thank you in advance.

  Hello
  Welcome to the user Discussion Forums,
  We understand the problem and the solution depends on several factors, please contact support as soon as we are asking you to send personal information here.
  http://eSupport.Sony.com/us/Perl/suppor... type_id = 24

• What I lose programs when using recovery discs

  You had to do a chdsk to get OS again due to the lost areas.  When replace the HD and reinstalling with the recovery discs I made shortly after receiving the HPE 170 t HP Pavlion I lose the Corel PSP program and other when / if reinstall right?

  Reinstall it puts the computer to the same State as when you bought it including all the bloatware that comes with the system.

• Install windows 7 on a new hard drive by using recovery discs. (Pavilion all-in-One MS215UK)

  Hard drive crashed and HP sent a new with recovery discs that say they will reinstall windows 7. Discs and installed hard drive run for 'restore factory settings' by following the instructions. Takes about an hour and all 4 disks are asking but then becomes at the end and left with white screen saying "no operating system installed."  Left on for a period simply show this message in case something happening in the background, but nothing happens.

  2 extra drives came with set, but they simply refer to the instructions that make no mention of them.

  Please help I am a novice total things withthese

  Hello

  Download and create the bootable CD as described at the link below.

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=PV-80183-1&cc=us&LC=en&DLC=en

  When you created this CD, insert it into the system that fails to start, restart, and wait until you see a window with a green check mark.  Next, remove the CD and insert your first recovery DVDs.  Reboot the PC and go through the process of installing the operating system again.  If all goes well, it should install properly this time.

  Best wishes

  DP - K

• Portege R700 - 15U HDD upgrade to SSD using recovery media

  Hello

  The installed HARD disk was 320, he developed surface errors.

  I decided that I would upgrade to an SSD. I got a 64 GB m4.

  I swapped the drives and booted from the recovery DVD. He gave an installation option. Selected, then it opens a command prompt where it starts to partition the drive, everything ok, until it copies the files. It errors with "CRC error or HARD drive.

  It is, with the resumption of Toshiba, there is more than 64 GB? How I choose partition sizes?

  Thank you
  Danny

  Post edited by: dannix

  Hey Buddy,

  And now your problem is solved or how to understand your second assignment?

  Is that recovery disk can also restore the factory settings on another SSD or HARD disk. There is no problem and 64 GB should be enough.

  These CRC errors could be linked to the SSD itself have you looked for an update of the firmware on the page of manufacturing SSD?
  Have you updated the BIOS?

• Satellite U400-15B - using recovery discs?

  Hi all

  Usually, I put my computers laptop back to factory after a few months. Usually short, faster and smoother and I store my music, videos, all on the external hard drive etc. HE made a copy of the recovery cd 2 theres, but I don't know how to reset to factory settings.

  Any help much appreciated.
  PS: It's Windows Vista

  Help, please

  Hello

  Using the Toshiba Recovery disk is very easy! If you have created the disk you only at the start of the first. So go in the BIOS boot menu, and then select the CD/DVD drive where you entered the front disc.

  The computer will now try to boot from the Toshiba Recovery disk and installs back factory settings. Only a few clicks are needed and must wait a few minutes where you can drink a coffee for example. ;)

  The disc contains a picture of the factory settings, and that means it wipe the entire HARD disk and creates the partitions again. All the drivers and tools are automatically installed and your computer is ready for use again!

• HP mini 110 cannot use recovery discs - BIOS insists the hard drive test failed. Drive works on another computer.

  My niece has a HP mini 110 that does not have a day. Do a check of the hard drive in the bios, it failed (7 on playback). I though I should get a new one so I ordered another. While waiting for that to happen, I had access to a usb SATA bridge and the opperating system was beyond repair and the unreadable disk from HP mini, I decided to try to repair the disk. So I reformatted the old disk using my desktop computer. Windows had no problem with the drive and it seems to work very well.

  I also had to order the recovery disks (intro to windows 7).

  In any case try to reinstall using the recovery via the DVD USB drive disks. It kept coming back with error 17 - I found a hard drive error. I also tried to install with a Windows XP installation disc and it was more explicit hard drive it said it had NOT installed it - or "it does not match the sheet material for unity" (or words to that effect)

  To get the new hard drive - the same problem. Even if both of these drives operate as USB connected to my main desktop drives. SO my conclusion is that the BIOS start inspect the hard drive, check the configuration of the formatting. that is the size and the partitions etc. and when they do not correspond to the idea of BIOS of good care he rejects the hard drive and finds it is not installed.  Or maybe to do some files on the hard drive of base. Whatever it is, the bios concludes that there is no hard drive and will always return a "failed" to the hard drive of the bios test.

  Any ideas on that? I need to know exactly which partitions are expected by the bios. Does anyone have these specs, or maybe you have a mini HP and can examine your hard disk and tell me the amounts of partition and the size?

  Unless I can get the bios to recognize the hard drive, I don't see how I can reinstall the operating system on it. Any help is appreciated.

  Thank you

  _______________________
  When it comes to fix computers the longest word in the English language is "JUST"... as in "you do just that and it will work" :-)
  _______________________

  HI David

  Well, I hope this is my last post here. I had already printed a return address for the recovery disks, being returned to the Netherlands. Just for the beggar of cast iron, however, I decided to try just once more would like to think that now that there is a kind of operating system on the hard drive it might work. But unfortunately still; no joy.

  All this time I would be considered may not be something wrong with the external hard drive because it was no problem to start the installation of XP. So I was just wondering maybe it does not receive enough power (it is a slimline portable DVD player that gets its power from a second usb) so I made a DVD player external adhock using an IDE hard drive enclosure (which has its own power supply and an old internal DVD burner I had put aside.

  To my surprise and joy; the HP mini started the recovery process. I am now watching reformat the windows partition and copy the files needed to restore the hard disk.

  So anyone with a similar problem to the HP mini not recognize the recovery disks is my advice; try an another external DVD drive, preferably one with its own supply of.

  Thanks for all your help and patience David.

• Using recovery discs W530 Win 7 on W540

  Hi all
  I own W530 and W540 thinkpads. I bought W530 nearly 18 months and W540 almost 3 months ago.
  W530: Win 7 Pro, 24 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB HARD drive, recovering the SSDS (Win7)
  W540: Win 8, 16 gb, 500 gb HDD, recovery disks (Win8)
  I did not win 8, I want to install Win 7 on it. Can I use Win 7 recovery disks accompanying W530 on W540?
  I tried but did not work for me. Had a blue screen (0x0000007B)

  Thanks for the help.

  Nice day.

  You do not mention Win8Pro, so I guess that your W540 came with Win8Std (aka Win8Core). Some machines under licence Win8Pro (not limited the W540) came with demotion Win7Pro right, have been imaged as such factory and included the support of recovery Win8Pro. In any case, I'm not totally surprised that the W530 media do not, technically.

  If my hypothesis is correct, to accomplish what you are after, I think that you will need to purchase a license Win7Pro.

  Hope this helps to clarify.

  Kind regards.

• After installing the new hard drive and using recovery discs, I get this message could not start because the following file is m issing or damaged system32\drivers\pci.sys

  I just replaced my hard drive with a new because the other HD said imminent failure or something like that! Basically the hard drive was about to fail and I so now the new one installed and I used my recovery disks and all seemed well until the recovery disks have been completed and the computer says to get out them. Then the computer restarted several times and then I get this message:
  Windows cannot start because missing or corrupt the system 32\drivers\pci.sys
  Then he said: "you can try to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original configuration of the CD-ROM.
  Select 'R' in the first screen to start repair.
  one of the many questions I have is that CD-ROMs are talking? It is the recovery disk, they want me to or what? also if you know a CV or another page which includes help on this specific topic would also help! Thank you
  also, I can still use the old drive hard when it is installed on my laptop!
  HP pavilion dv5220us running windows xp
  I had advanced care system that had a top registry Fixer and I got ccleaner as well on the computer
  internet security Norton 2011

  Hello panjok2,

  Sometimes recovery CD are dependent on the architecture of a hard drive.  If it is different from the original disc, then we have problems.

  In this case, the best thing you could do is contact HP and see if this is the case.  If it is not why this happens, they should be able to help you as well because they are the ultimate authority on their recovery process.

  Let us know if you have any questions.

  Best regards

  Matthew_Ha