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    Will the restore disk work on a new hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by yanqui, Jun 16, 2008.

  1. yanqui

    yanqui Newbie

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    I believe I'm losing my hard drive, and if I replace it, will the Toshiba restore disk work on teh replacement like it did on teh original hard drive, as long as I haven't changed any of the other hardware?
     
    yanqui, Jun 16, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    yep....they shud work..!!

    Install the new hard drive in place of the old one.

    Boot to the Recovery Disk.

    It will partition and format your new drive. It will most likely build a recovery partition on your new drive and install some factory installed programs too, if u had them installed that is.

    I am not very sure since I never got the chance to try this....!!
     
    Andy, Jun 16, 2008
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  3. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    Yes and it will make them exactly as it was before.
     
    The_Observer, Jun 16, 2008
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    Yes it will. No problem there.Unless you change the mainboard,you're good.
     
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  5. yanqui

    yanqui Newbie

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    Well, three of you gave exactly the same answer, I'll take that as truth then. Now--I'm running chkdsk on it, and it's been stuck on stage 4 of 5, verifying file data, at 30% for about four hours. I'm giong to leave it up all night and see if it finishes, but I'm not confident, and i"ve never had chkdsk take this long to run. But I did run it with the repair switch, so that has a lot to do with it, I'm sure.

    I'm hoping to not lose my data on teh drive, but there's not much I'd lose because I did a backup recently. I think I may lose one download of photos, and I think Quicken will re-get everything I lose between the last backup and the next update. I even saved most of my install programs for software that I downloaded, it's all on an external drive. I might lose some calendar items but between my palm device and what's on an online calendar, I may be able to preserve most of those as well. I do hate to lose my outlook pst file, but if I have to, I have to. This machine is two years old, but it's been a really good machine, adn I have to get it up and running before we leave on vacation so we have the maps and gps available.

    Thanks for the help.
     
    yanqui, Jun 16, 2008
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