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| Thread ID: 93887 | 2008-10-05 20:33:00 | OEM on a new HD? | sarel (2490) | PC World Chat |
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| 709857 | 2008-10-05 20:33:00 | Hi guys I've checked previous posts but I could not find anything so please forgive me for asking again. I need to change my friend's HD on his lappie. He has the WinXP OEM sitting in a seperate drive (D). How do one reinstall it onto a new HD? I've done reinstallation of OEM's before, but that was on the same PC as where the HD resided. Thanks sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 709858 | 2008-10-05 20:38:00 | Use the xp disks if u dont have them then.. well are the hard drives sata? | Silver_Blade (10144) | ||
| 709859 | 2008-10-05 20:43:00 | Got no idea - haven't opened the lappie yet and he's planning on buying the HD. sarel |
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| 709860 | 2008-10-06 18:56:00 | A lot of Googled sites says this can't be done, while other sites say it could be done by cloning your HD. Any comments? sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 709861 | 2008-10-07 04:53:00 | Yep just clone it with something like Acronis or Ghost for paid ones or there are free disk imaging programs too the names escape me at the moment. I cloned my sons 40Gb hdd to a new 12oGb drive by putting the new lappie drive into an enclosure worked flawlessly with Acronis True image 11 but I made an Acronis boot CD so did it outside of Windows as it was quicker to copy still took over an hour though | gary67 (56) | ||
| 709862 | 2008-10-07 05:45:00 | You can try Seagates DiscWizard (www.seagate.com) - for cloning the drive - its Free, you can create a bootable CD if you want. The software which is basically Acronis True Image with backup capability removed - works well , in fact when it loads it says Acronis - only problem is this one from Seagate is mainly designed for Seagate drives, so using other brands apart from Seagate (at least one drive) you may run into problems. Seagate's are better drives any way so its a good choice to use. |
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| 709863 | 2008-10-07 19:24:00 | Thanks guys sarel |
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