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I bought a hard drive for my laptop but of course i dont know what i need to
do know.I know how to replace my current hard drive but when i put the new
one in it said it was not a bootable sector? I need windows xp disk correct?
If someone could direct me to a guide to walk me through the software part i
would appreciate it.

piper

"Piper" <> wrote in message
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>I bought a hard drive for my laptop but of course i dont know what i need
>to
> do know.I know how to replace my current hard drive but when i put the new
> one in it said it was not a bootable sector? I need windows xp disk
> correct?
> If someone could direct me to a guide to walk me through the software part
> i
> would appreciate it.
>
> piper
>


piper

Google is your friend
http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta=

for example
http://lifehacker.com/software/windo...tch-157578.php

Best
Paul.

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:04 -0500, Piper Has Frothed:

> I bought a hard drive for my laptop but of course i dont know what i need to
> do know.I know how to replace my current hard drive but when i put the new
> one in it said it was not a bootable sector? I need windows xp disk correct?
> If someone could direct me to a guide to walk me through the software part i
> would appreciate it.
>
> piper

If you want to clone your current drive onto a bigger drive and resize the
partition to reflect the additional space you need a couple things.

1. Two 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adaptors.
2. Bootable CD with Acronis Easy Migrate.
3. Desktop PC.

Seeing you don't know anything about a computer, you might want to print
this article out and give it to someone who does.
Temporarily mount your drives in a desktop PC. (ok just to let them hang
from the cables)
Boot from the CD and run Easy Migrate.
Remove the target drive and mount it in you laptop and make sure that it
boots and operates properly. I've cloned a couple drives that didn't work
right the first time. But a second pass fixed it.

--
Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004

COOSN-266-06-25794

Piper wrote:
> I bought a hard drive for my laptop but of course i dont know what i
> need to do know.I know how to replace my current hard drive but when
> i put the new one in it said it was not a bootable sector? I need
> windows xp disk correct? If someone could direct me to a guide to
> walk me through the software part i would appreciate it.
>
> piper

This link: http://www.windowsreinstall.com/
has a good set of step-by-step instructions for just about all scenarios.

However, your laptop may have come with "recovery" software that may be a
better idea.

In my experience, most users don't ever make the recovery discs. They don't
even read the instructions that came with the computer that tell them that
they should make the recovery discs. So when the system crashes, they don't
have the discs needed to get it back to the original factory configuration.

So it might be a good idea for you to check out the stuff that came with the
laptop, and see whether you have discs or not, and whether you were supposed
to make your own discs, and if so, how to do that.

You probably have settings (email account info, etc.) and data (music,
documents, spreadsheets, videos, photos, etc.) on the laptop that you want
to keep, and transfer into the new hard drive. Get that information backed
up BEFORE starting anything else.