Hard Drive crashed, installed new one, now what?

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Arkhaminmate

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My Hard Drive died a few weeks ago so I threw in a new one, checked the new one in BIOS and everything seems to be fine. The problem is that I was under the impression that I would be able to reinstall Vista on the new hard drive with my recovery disk but after I put in the disk, click install and enter my product key I get an error "cannot open required file D:/Sources/Install.wim. The file does not exist. Error code 0x80070002". I have no idea what this means or where to go from here so if anyone could offer a solution and explain it to me like I'm three (I'm not very tech savy), or point me in the right direction of where to start looking for a solution it would be much appreciated! Also for further info I do have it set to read the CD drive first in BIOS, and it's booting up the disk right away.
 
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Probably there is a recovery partition on your dead drive. That is the D:/sources/... referred to, I believe. Depending on how badly your hard drive died, the recovery partition and MBR partition may still be there and readable, but some part of the rest of the drive is bad. Maybe. It depends on the condition of the drive, but conceivably you could image the recovery partition and MBR partition to your new drive, then power down, disconnect the bad drive, power up and try recovery. I suspect that is a very long shot.

If your bad drive is totally dead, or the recovery partition or MBR partition is corrupt, there is little hope of using recovery by non-guru class users. You must do a new install to the new drive, probably the...
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slowhands95128

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Probably there is a recovery partition on your dead drive. That is the D:/sources/... referred to, I believe. Depending on how badly your hard drive died, the recovery partition and MBR partition may still be there and readable, but some part of the rest of the drive is bad. Maybe. It depends on the condition of the drive, but conceivably you could image the recovery partition and MBR partition to your new drive, then power down, disconnect the bad drive, power up and try recovery. I suspect that is a very long shot.

If your bad drive is totally dead, or the recovery partition or MBR partition is corrupt, there is little hope of using recovery by non-guru class users. You must do a new install to the new drive, probably the cleanest method anyway. Hopefully you had your data backed up and you have source disks for all your programs. Since Microsoft is not doing updates for Vista other than Security updates, you want to be using Vista SP2 disk as a start. If you don't have that, buy it and use it. Then load the drivers and you should be up.

Vista is very crippled now. I do use it on one vintage system which has critical things on it which I can't port, but it's just too painful for day to day use. I use Win 7 and 10 (with Classic Shell) so I get updates.
 
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