Why my Windows XP won/t find my new hard drive (bit 1 TR)

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• Windows Update does not work after new hard drive

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  What do you think of will be without safety last cumulative update for IE8 be manually downloaded and installed before going to windows update to nothing at all.  What will happen is the CPU at 100% and a whole lot of nothing else of fortification.

  Do not go in line with the hopes of getting the updates of windows after the installation of SP3.

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  It was particularly convenient for people who could not easily get the manufacturer's recovery media, did not want to pay the fees required to get or preferred a clean configuration without the software packaged manufacturers or even a recovery partition does not work. It's easy to use, all you had to do was reinstall and reactivate using the product key located on the certificate of authenticity and download all the drivers on the manufacturers website.

  Given that this option is no longer available, what are your options? See the article for more details:

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  Step 2: Perform a custom installation, see Windows 7 section of the following article how to perform a custom installation:

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  Step 3:

  http://techingiteasy.WordPress.com/2012/04/13/how-to-activate-Windows-7-OEM-license-using-a-retail-disc/

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

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