Changing HDD Acer Aspire

JoeBoi · 16 Jan 2010 at 10:28

Hi all, I was just wondering if it would be possible for me to upgrade my HDD on my new Acer laptop with a 7200rpm model that I already own. The only problem I can see is that I don't have a copy of windows as my laptop didn't ship with one :mad:

. So is there any way I can work around that? I've made their backup disks already dunno if they'd work the same way.

Thunderbolt · 16 Jan 2010 at 10:34

AFAIK they'll work fine.

JoeBoi · 16 Jan 2010 at 10:38

AdamDaniels88 said:
AFAIK they'll work fine.

How does it work just a boot up from cd/dvd and it'll install to the new drive?

Nymins · 16 Jan 2010 at 11:17

Plug the new hard drive in and go into the bios and change the boot order to have the CD/DVD come on first. There may already be an 'F' key to press to boot from a certain device. Depends on the model and bios revision.

bees · 17 Jan 2010 at 21:13

you could change the hdd and do image copy from old hdd to a new one.

JoeBoi · 17 Jan 2010 at 21:39

bees said:
you could change the hdd and do image copy from old hdd to a new one.

How do I do that mate?

Nymins thats cool but will my backup DVD that I made with the ACER backup program just install what I had on the old hdd windows 7 inc to the new one?

bees · 18 Jan 2010 at 19:45

using acronis true image home.

HAz · 18 Jan 2010 at 21:08

norton ghost is great for doing that

JoeBoi · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:39

Thanks for the all the replies, I made a backup DVD of my hdd using the acer e-recovery program and changed the hard drive over and am now up and running