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Installing Windows 7 on a new HD
Hi all,
I have a new HP Pavillion Laptop that I would like to put a new hard drive in. It currently has Windows 7 preloaded from the factory, but does not have any recovery or installation cds with it. I want to install a 500GB Western Digital Internal Hard Drive. I have also purchased a USB drive with 32GB of memory and an external drive with 250GB of memory.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have to image my hard drive to the external drive (250GB) which I will boot from with the new internal drive in the computer. Then this will install Windows 7 on the new internal hard drive.
I made a "recovery" disk on the thumbdrive mentioned above, but it would not load Windows on the new drive. It seems extremely excessive that I had to buy all of these extra items just because there was no CD supplied to install Windows on a new hard drive. Am I missing anything here? Thanks in advance.