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Unfortunately you were given bad information, it has very little to do with the hard drive being replaced.
In fact the recommended way to install a new hard drive is to replace the drive then run the Recovery Media, I've had it work multiple times with new drives on my 3 HP machines, the IQ506, the IQ846, and the Pavilion m9040n.
So while always a good warning to back up your data, the Recovery media should work.
Diane
Recovery Disk Wont Work After HDD Upgrade
Sadly i only found this out once i had swapped out the old noisey seatgate,
for a silent samgsung one,
i should have cloned the drive but wiped it and gave it to my mate, thinking the disk would work...
on top of this i phoned hp and there said the problem was caused by the hard drive being replaced,
so after doing a fresh install of windows, the recovery console doesnt work,
downloaded the latest update and refuses to work,
so looks like i wont be able to restore the games,
i tend to use this iq515uk for watching tv and films,
so not to worries i couldnt get some stuff to work...
thought i'd put this info up,
just incase someone does a hdd upgrade and there recovery disk dont work,
May 19, 2010 3:41 PM
May 20, 2010 7:59 AM
Yeah that is exactly what i thought,
my other 2 touchsmarts came with the tb drives so plenty of extra storage,
the iq515uk came with the 500gb seagate drive,
which recently started making alot of clicking noise,
i did make the recovery disk with vista,
and have used them once before when i had to restore the system,
i had 2 1tb drives (samsung & seagate) both brand new bought a month or so back,
when i found 20% coupons online both have warranty,
i first went and installed the seagate, thought replace the original seagate with the same brand,
but when i turned the touchsmart on i got the message promt,
the hard drive is failing, contact support,
took that out and plug it into the server and it passed a full 1hr test,
so then went and installed the samgsung,
all working fine stuck in the disk and when the recovery process starts,
i get the 100a error,
which cant be a number of things including recent hardware changes,
so had no choice but do a fresh install...
i do have a touchsmart 800 and 600,
going to see if the recovery media works from one of them...
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