Shaun5817

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HI i just got a new hard drive for my computer how do i copy one to the other and will it copy evary thing cos i have packard bell recovery management and i need to keep that please help
 

cirdecus

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If you're not looking to do a clean reformat, you could image the drive using software or a hardware utility, as long as the drive is larger than the source drive:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/16784135?adid=22222222227000860576&wmlspartner=wlpa&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=&wl3=13947879070&wl4=&wl5=pla

I'm guessing the packard bell thing is some kind of vendor recovery partition.

If you want to do a clean reformat and setup your PC from scratch (reinstall windows, etc), that would be ideal. This of course would require you to have a windows disk, key and the programs that you wished to reinstall.