i own a Compaq presario. i really want to install a new hard drive and motherboard. the motherboards kinda old and slow. really want to upgrade and make it faster. the Compaq has a really helpful system recovery that when it boots up and runs threw bios it has the option to press F11 and run the Compaq system recovery. How would i reinstall that when i get a new sata hard drive? I don’t think my warranty is still void since i bought it in 2004. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best reply by no ie8:
get a hard drive cloner program or a disk imaging program and copy the old disk to the new with a disk copy program. most new hard drives come with a utility to copy the old one to the new one if not just go to the hard drive manufacturer’s website and download it. There free
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how to partition a hard drive to system recovery?