Recovery Cd new hard drive

Foges · #1 21-12-2003, 09:34

hello, i know this is a bit off topic, but i was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to use a recovery cd on a new hard drive, if there was any program to do that or something. right now i have a 40 gb hard drive and have just bought a 120gb new one and i wanted to sell my old one, which contains xp and instal xp on the new one

Does anyone know??

Eagle · #2 21-12-2003, 10:02

why dont you try it out?

as long as you haven't already formatted/sold you old hdd it's no risk to try.

Foges · #3 21-12-2003, 11:38

i will, i just thought that the recovery disks only were made for one specific hard drive

RincewindTheWiz · #4 21-12-2003, 17:13

Recovery cds are probably limited to that particular brand of pc, if you have one of the big ones like Compaq, Dell etc. Windows setup can look for a certain bios string to make sure you don't install it on another computer, Microsoft used to require this from all OEM's to avoid the cheap OEM Windows version that's on a recovery cd can be installed somewhere else. But I never heard of the recovery cd being hard disk dependant, so it should work fine as long as your new hard disk is in your old machine. You can always try anyway.