Packard Bell recovery

[Dave Smith]

Not OT 'cos we're doing it ourselves :-)

A friend's 18-month old PB computer has a faulty hard drive (confirmed by Hitachi's own diagnostics). It's a 640GB drive and came partitioned into two drives. He made the recovery DVD's when he first got the machine so that's good. However, he's got a 500GB drive as the replacement (he says that's big enough so fair enough).

If we start the recovery, will it all go as it should or will it throw some sort of wobbly because it'll see a 500 instead of 640GB?

TIA

[Scott M]

It'll be fine. At worst it'll want the same sized partition as the original backup image (which is presumably 320GB.)

Scott

[Dave Smith]

Cheers Scott, that's what I was hoping for :-)

[grimly4]

Best thing to do with a PB is lob it in the skip.

[Bernard Peek]

What have you got to lose by trying?

[Alan Deane]

+1

[Toby]

If it were me, I would simply get a Windows 7 home premium CD, assuming that is the OS, and install that, using the serial number that should be stuck to the machine, that way you wont get all the extra crap they will no doubt bundle in the recovery media.

You will probably have to download the divers, it is usually best to get the latest versions when doing a re-install anyway.