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so i ran out of space on the tiny 80 gig hard drive that was in my laptop so i decided it was time to upgrade to something bigger. So i got a new seagate 500 gig hard drive and put it in, then installed windows again but i noticed after installing a couple drivers that there is no recovery drive. why isn’t there one? I am pretty sure i need one but dont know how to get one there! any help would be nice!

Best reply by KateJB:

There is no recovery partition on your new drive because you didn’t make one.

If you have a Windows disc, then you don’t really *need* one. Save your drivers to another disc and you should be okay if you need to reinstall in the future.

Good luck.

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why is there no recovery drive on my new hard drive after i finished installing everything?

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I did the recovery on my hard drive yesterday to erase everything. It is now clean and with all the preinstalled programs that it came with. I tried to download and install the Service Pack 3. It downloads but it does not install. I get a “acces denied” message. A window pops up giving me Error Code:0×800700005. Why is it not installing?

Best reply by blamay22000:

I would first try the windows update tool.

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How do I install Window Updates SP3 after I perform a recovery on my hard drive?