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    18 win 7 reinstall

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by sgttoughbook, Jun 27, 2010.

  1. sgttoughbook

    sgttoughbook Notebook Consultant

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    just wondering if any one knows a way to reinstall 7 on an 18 with out haveing to reload all the drivers?

    -john-
     
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  2. Azrial

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    Well if it is installed now you could just image the HDD with Acronis or the like...
     
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    Is it going back on the same hd? Why are you having to do the reload? If the hd is okay, why not just try doing a repair to the OS?
     
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    hdd is fine comp just starting to slow up a bit and i figured reload windows save things i need to another drive. ive used acronis many times before, im thinking i should move everything to my 60gb 7200 instead of the 80gb 5400 im using noq any thoughts on that, i have a 500 gb sata 7200 but have never found a sata to ide that will fit the 18. man Sundays i really like to ramble.lol.

    thanks guys

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    How full is the hard drive? What programs do you have running in the background (what shows in startup and do you use selective startup?) How often do you run the utility programs to clear out all the garbage that hangs around (to include defrag)? It sounds as if there is something other than the hard drive going bad, but that is always a possibility. I would get an external hard drive first and back up all the data to make sure you still have it in case the HD does go south, or you could even do the clone process with Acronis.
     
    Silver Trooper, Jun 28, 2010
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