I replaced my hard drive in my r c laptop with a used hard drive I cannot boot into the BIOS to change the date how do I get Samsung laptop not recognizing DVD drive after replacing HDD Laptop hangs for half a minute at every boot after replacing HDD with SSDįix hard drive failure for HP laptop,Is it necessary for me to replace it How to download replaced hard drive laptop os asus x540sa How do I reboot a Toshiba satellite laptop after replacing the hard drive?īeen told my samsung laptop hard drive is faulty, what can I expect to pay for replacement drive and repair?4 Question Hard drive in laptop is not detected after battery replacement Wondering if that would work for a laptop as well. Or do I need a whole new Windows 7 product key? I heard people talk about contacting customer service when using their product key when using a new hard drive/making a new pc and they allowed them to. My idea I had in mind is transferring some of his files to a USB flash drive and then just swapping the hard drive with a new hard drive and using my Window 7 disk and his product key. I have a copy of Windows 7 Home that I used for making my desktop.

He has a product key thingy on the sticker on the bottom of his laptop for his OS. Is replacing a hard drive on a laptop with a clean install the same as a desktop? Swap it, go through the partitions/bios/OS screens real quick or is there something weird I should look out for? Also Is there a way for me to use the current Windows 7 that he has. Well, all that aside, he doesn't have much room on his hard drive even if it was empty and I want to replace it. All I know is that his laptop is a Dell and has an i3 at 2.2 - 2.4 ghz, forgot what it said exactly. Would any of this effect it saying genuine? It keeps trying to windows update but doesn't complete and it's a pain. I was using spacesniffer to see what was happening and it seemed like the area under winsxs kept taking up room. After I cleared out like 8-10 GB, something was eating up the room again. As I looked through his laptop, that's when I noticed he has absolutely no space. He said that his Windows 7 randomly started saying that it isn't genuine but he has had it for a couple years or something and it only recently started saying this. My problem is that my friends Dell laptop is low on space and literally says 0 room.

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