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thecornflake   06-11-2009 at 08:26:52 PM

Hi,

I'm looking at a laptop for someone as it keeps crashing after Windows loads up (Vista home prem). I can run Vista repair tolls from CD and it doesn't crash, so I can get to a command prompt ok. When I run chkdsk I get loads of "Windows replaced bad clusters" errors. I plugged the drive via a USB adapter into my PC to try and backup the files, and got some I/O errors when copying the files to my local PC.

I'm pretty sure the hdd is on the way out, and replacements aren;t that much money, around £40 at drivemylaptop.co.uk (anyone heard of them?).

Now the owber doesn't have the disk, instead of supplying them they now seem to have an X partition which can be used to do a factory re-install. Is there any way I can get Vista onto the new drive using this, perhaps copying the X partition over to a partition on the new drive and then using it to restore?

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overclockingrocks   06-11-2009 at 08:54:18 PM
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I'd say your best bet and this can legally be done as long as there is a legal key to be used is download a copy of vista from a torrent site (make sure it's an OEM) track down your drivers and use the key provided on the bottom of the laptop to activate it. no fuss no muss and better than transferring the stock factory install with all it's crapware imho.

hope this helps

overclockingrocks

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thecornflake   06-11-2009 at 08:59:19 PM
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Thanks. Hopefully the drivers could be copied from the existing disk, although it's a fairly new laptop so they shouldn't be too hard to get hold of.

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