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Thread ID: 133945 2013-06-09 12:15:00 Dead hdd, need new drive, transfer Win7 Greg (193) Press F1
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1345218 2013-06-09 12:15:00 Stupid thread title but couldn't think of the best way to word it...

My friend's Acer laptop's drive has died. I want to suggest she gets an external drive to replace it, but... the lappie came with Win7 pre-installed and she only has the recovery disk/s. I kinda doubt it'll install the o/s on a new drive, or will it? The thing is we don't want to have to buy a new o/s when she has a paid-for oem licence already. What should we do?
Greg (193)
1345219 2013-06-09 20:13:00 Any new internal drive will work if they have the recovery disks.
Even without recovery disks you could still use any copy of windows 7 and use the license key from the bottom of the laptop.
CYaBro (73)
1345220 2013-06-09 23:11:00 Thanks. Greg (193)
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