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by jamescr

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My mistake I admit it. Never should have bought
a Compaq Computer. I realized that there were some propritery hardware issuses. What I was not aware of is that the Restore, Supplemental and Operating disk are also proprietary. Is there anyway around this? I have a newer hardreive that I want to make as the primary and the older drive as the secondary. Hp informs me that the OEM disk(Restore,Resore Suplemental and Compaq operating sytem) will not install
properly on the new drive. I will not be able to restore the computer if I have problems and of-course this would not be an issuse if I had upgraded my HD through Compq/HP.

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by ozi eagle

Hi

I assume that your original HDD still boots correctly.

What you could try is to image your old disk to the new one, using Acronis or Ghost or Disk Image or any other disk imaging program.
Then expand the partition to fill your new HDD.

Of course this assumes that the Compaq will recognise your new HDD, even as a slave.

Good luck

Herb

by jamescr

Herb, thanks for your input. My question must be a security issuse because you are the only one who has replied so far. If I image the HDD can I confine what I can image becuae the additional add-on programs are readily available on-line?

by pgm554

is a Seagate,they will give you a version of Acronis which will move all the partitions and expand the drive to use the full amount of disk space.
Sounds like you got the HP/Compaq Indian tech support center who doesn't know a lot about anything.

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