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ted
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Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:
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Friends,
I purchased a new larger hard drive and wish to install it in my Compaq as
the only drive but the onlything that came with the machine is the recovery
disc - not a operating system - I still have all of the paper work with the
numbers but will these be able to install a new operating system on a
untouched HD? And how would I go about it ?
Thank you so much for your input.
Shayn |
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David H. Lipman
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Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:
Re: new hard drive |
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Wrong News Group.
Please repost in a suitable OS News Group.
This News Group is for discussing Internet access using Cable Internet providers and the
modems they use.
Dave
"ted" <pom1@ptd.net> wrote in message news:jMKdnR94Dc9qQi_cUSdV9g@ptd.net...
| Friends,
| I purchased a new larger hard drive and wish to install it in my Compaq as
| the only drive but the onlything that came with the machine is the recovery
| disc - not a operating system - I still have all of the paper work with the
| numbers but will these be able to install a new operating system on a
| untouched HD? And how would I go about it ?
| Thank you so much for your input.
| Shayn
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Colin
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Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:19 am Post subject:
Re: new hard drive |
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"ted" <pom1@ptd.net> wrote in news:jMKdnR94Dc9qQi_cUSdV9g@ptd.net:
| Quote: | Friends,
I purchased a new larger hard drive and wish to install it in my
Compaq as
the only drive but the onlything that came with the machine is the
recovery disc - not a operating system - I still have all of the paper
work with the numbers but will these be able to install a new
operating system on a untouched HD? And how would I go about it ?
Thank you so much for your input.
Shayn
Like somebody said - wrong news group, but here goes anyway: instead of
reinstalling the operating system and all your programs, get Drive Image (I |
think that now it is Symantec). I use version 5 and just boot from the
emergency floppy, run the program in DOS and copy the old disk image to the
new, adjusting the partition size to fit the new disk. Works every time.
You will have to install both disks in the computer to do this, with the
new disk either on the second IDE channel or as a slave on the primary one.
After you transfer the image, make the new disk the primary and remove the
old one. You will get everything back just with the new disk. If you have
WIndows XP, it will not complain about activation either.
Colin. |
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MisterSkippy
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Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:37 am Post subject:
Re: new hard drive |
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 05:16:16 -0500, "ted" <pom1@ptd.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Friends,
I purchased a new larger hard drive and wish to install it in my Compaq as
the only drive but the onlything that came with the machine is the recovery
disc - not a operating system - I still have all of the paper work with the
numbers but will these be able to install a new operating system on a
untouched HD? And how would I go about it ?
Thank you so much for your input.
Shayn
Your manual or the Compaq website has specific details how to do |
this.
"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's
constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into
his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."
- Justice William O. Douglas |
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