| beejaybee |
| (Marvin) |
| 26/06/2008 01:10 |
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Re: How to deal with failed hard drive...
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1. Remove existing hard drive and put in an external case
2. Buy new hard drive for laptop (current one is 80GB - can I go up to, say, 250GB without issues??)
3. Can I then just stick in the system recovery disk that came with the laptop to re-install XP on the new drive??
This sounds too easy - particularly the installing XP on a fresh drive bit - I can't quite see this happening.
Should work fine. You will still spend ages reinstalling all the software you've added, applying updates & configuring the way you want it. And you will probably struggle to recover data from the failing hard disk.
But really this is the way to go....