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More info?)
There is no recover disk that comes with Windows. It has its own built
in recovery console and repair installtion process. I guess these could
be considered recover options. What you are thinking of by recover disk
is something that is often supplied with OEM computers such as Dell or HP.
Your new Maxtor Harddrive comes with software called MaxBlast. Just
connect both drives in the same computer, the new one as Master, the old
on as Slave, and boot off the MaxBlast CD. Choose to copy the old drive
to the new one and you are set to go
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Nathan McNulty
Faye wrote:
> I do have a CD . I bought it at office depot, and
> installed, but no recover disk came with it. I will try
> youer suggestions. Thanks!The drive I bought is Maxtor ,
> by the way.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>How did you manage to Upgrade to XP if you didn't get a
>
> CD?
>
>>If by magic I have read between the lines correctly, you
>
> intend to install a new Hard Drive and then 'copy' you
> current drive across.
>
>>To do this, it would be better to buy a Maxtor Drive and
>
> get their Software [supplied with retail Hard Drive].
> The software is on a bootable CD, complete with written
> and on scrren instructions that step you through this
> process.
>
>>Failing that, you'll need to format and partition the
>
> new hard drive and buy a product like Ghost and then from
> the bootable floopy disk, boot up the system and do a
> disk to disk copy. Old drive to new drive.
>
>>Reconfigure the drives so that the new drive becomes the
>
> Primary Master and then boot up from it [make sure the
> old drive is disconnected at this time]. Check out the
> partitioning and formatting of the new Hard drive and
> then shutdown.
>
>>Reinstall the old drive as Primary Slave or Secondary
>
> Master.
>
>>Rerboot to WIndows, then format the old drive. You can
>
> now use the old drive as a 'recovery drive' by using
> Ghost to create an Image of the new [system] drive. It
> is then able to be used to restore you system when and if
> there are any problems.
>
>>It is wise to run Ghost regularly as a full 'backup'
>
> process.
>
>>"Faye" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I want to install a new hard drive, but when I
>
> upgraded
>
>>>to win. XP (home edition) it did not come with a
>
> recovery
>
>>>CD . Is there a way to create one ? or any suggestions
>
> on
>
>>>how to boot from the CD after installing the hard
>
> drive?
>
>>>Please e-mail me as it is a bit difficult to read some
>
> of
>
>>>the small print at this time.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Lazy Bee
>>>
>>
>>.
>>
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