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    What if I swap HDs across manufacturers?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by vsherry, Nov 3, 2008.

  1. vsherry

    vsherry Notebook Evangelist

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    A new VAIO I love is on sale on eBay, and I badly want it. Problem: I own an HP dv6000 with a 320GB hard drive. The new PC has a 250GB HD. If I just swap out the HDs, will the VAIO force me to restore it to VAIO factory settings? I basically want to know if I'll be forced to run a backup recovery of my old files or get away with merely swapping without starting over. Please help soon.
     
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    You will have to at the very minimum reinstall Windows, since they're totally different machines with different drivers and hardware.
     
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    You're going to have to wipe the HDD and reinstall the operating system.
     
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    If you have a external disk you can make a backup then swap the hdds after this, restore the backup in the laptop, the software that you can use for this operation is Acronis True Image.
     
    quinielascom, Nov 3, 2008
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