swapping hard drives help

[Busadobe]

i was wondering if there is a way to get winbloz to copy to a new hard drive for my lap top i want to get a new one cause i think it is dying i normally wouldnt have a problem but i dont have a copy of widows for my laptop.

[BerZerK]

It can be done with an external enclosure and Ghost...not for the faint of heart.

[Busadobe]

only thing i am worried about is widows update having a valid copy

[BerZerK]

you planning on installing it via cd? Or cloning the entire drive? If your just going to install it, and it already is 'legit'. All you need to do is activate it. It may require a phone call, but I doubt it.

[Busadobe]

it sounds like i have to clone it sony never gave me a real windows cd

[ThunderStruck]

You can make a restore CD from the partition.... If the drive still runs just look throught the start menu... or maybe some help from Berzerk....

[Busadobe]

i have restore cd from sony but i dont think it has full windows on it and i think i t checks the serial num on the hd

[ThunderStruck]

Should be all there... They provide that for just such a case... Give it a try... It that dosent work Berzerk and I can help from there.

[BerZerK]

hehe, us "Geeks"

We both work for Geek Squad with best buy in Holland.

Anyhow, if you can create the recovery disks, the serial is usually on the bottom of the notebook (or back of desktop) It's going to be a green/white sticker with the microsoft logo on it. Use that when it installs if it asks for it. It probably will not since it's oem software.

Does the system boot up? If not you'll be a little screwed. Which means you'll need to either A) order some disks from manufacturer or B) "borrow" a copy from someone who has them....'cough cough, me cough'

If you don't have them, you'll lose all the software that came preloaded and will have to install any hardware video/sound/ethernet seperately (some of it windows will do automatically).

Good Luck

[Busadobe]

i have all the cds it came with where do i get laptop hd's i have a sony pcg-gr370. i also would like to toss some more ram in it.
I would not need to do it but the wife wont let me bring u my shuttle i built a couple years ago. Here is another question for you guys since you work at best buy i have a sony hi8 camcorder that we bought from there i dont know how many years can we bring it to you guy to get serviced? i just found out i get my sony digital camera is going to get repaired for free

[ThunderStruck]

You can buy any laptop HDD, we carry them at BB but youll have better luck with prices on Pricewatch.com... (i didnt say that)... And as for the 8mm you can bring it in whenever... It just depends on if you have a service plan or not and if its still in the manufatures(sp) warranty... If not its gonna cost... :(

[Busadobe]

i cant rememer the full display number but i just bought today a sony 305 the digital camcorder

[BerZerK]

DVD 305? Nice camera. Hope you don't do much editing though, the DVD cams aren't much fun to edit. Great for record and send. The 505 i think it is, the bigger one has some on-camera editing that's impressive. If you just need to cut out a section of you filming your foot, you'll be ok. :)

As for the HD, check pricewatch.com, i found this: http://www.memorylabs.net/podrcoexusb24.html It's a good deal on a 60gb with an enclosure (you can use the enclosure to pull data off the old drive).

[Busadobe]

i got a firewire drive case with a 40 gig in it. Here is a question and i think i know the answer to it i have a wcg200 and a couple weeks ago it just up and resets quit abit but it doesnt loose the pw so i did a software and hardware reset and it still does it i called both the isp a linksys and nothing so does that mean i have to buy a new one