laptop hard drive ide 2.5

I Aam buying a new hard drive My operating system still there?

I currently have a 40 GB Fujitsu 2.5 "IDE disk PA-TA now hard on my IBM Think-Pad T42 Laptop. HM160HC I ordered a new Samsung 160GB 2.5 "IDE 5400rpm 8MB Cache – OEM eBuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155940). Once you insert the new hard disk on my laptop is my operating system (Windows Vista Home Premium) are still there and I will be able to boot my system properly? If this is the case, then how do I boot my laptop or will I have to reinstall my operating system? Thanks in advance:)

Unfortunately not be gone. It will be in the HD age. You have to reinstall. There is a solution, but you do not like. You have to "clone" the old to the new HD. way easier to do is to use a USB Adapter 2.5-inch IDE. Power down, plug the HD back to the adapter and prepared through the partition is a partition 40 Gig primary and at least one extended partition of at least 40 other concerts. The rest can be formatted or not as you wish. Set the primary partition active. Power down. Make an image of the existing drive C: using Hiren CD as a bootable CD. (assuming the laptop has a CD drive). Select Clone from the menu and choose a software cloning, such as Drive Image. Run and make an image of drive C: for the extended partition of the new HD. Http: / / www.hiren.info / pages / bootcd You may now exchange units, but its faster than doing so directly, but is all there. With the software of the same drive image, restore the image to the partition new primary disk. Assuming all goes well, just do it. Now you can change the units. Home. A prayer can help your case. If I start practice, then it Once the principal was not set to active. Fix that, booting with Boot again with using any partitioning software. I like Partition Magic. Try again. If that fails, and assuming we're talking about XP, then boot into any XP installation disk and go to the console repair (R). Try fixmbr C: and fixboot C: command. Use after each. Type exit You're done. Restart. Another prayer. This should work. If not, you have a trip to the local repair center for laptop comes. But it should be fine. Print this so they know what they have done, or tried to do. Keep the picture on the drive D:. It may be necessary for a restoration of a day. you can always remove the drive letter and Windows is hiding. So you still leaves 80 free concerts. If the image is much smaller than 40 performances then just shrink the partition to the room. The unit will do a good bit older USB memory in a case content. But I guess it is expected that anyway. Better now to destroy the Hiren's CD. Their legality is a bit gray. But since you are only using for a quickie movement units can not see anyone breaking the door. Have fun!

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