I can hook it to the USB cloning cables and see what's on it.It appears to be okay,I may be able to use it's Recovery Manager if I could get it to boot. The old HDD was failing so I had a tier 2 tech working on it and She decided to format the C drive(my OS) and it finally failed or refused to boot. If I can just get the Recovery Manager program that may work as well, all I really need are those two items and they are within the program itself!Ĭould I use that to (re)install them onto the new HDD instead of the other route of cloning the whole HDD or its recovery partition! So what's the deal?Would cloning a bad HDDs' Recovery Section be a bad idea or could I just try to get to the recovery manger and copy those files instead? I need my DVD player for new program installs,as well as My web cam back as I need Skype as a Game tester! Most of the other crap ware can stay off this new HDD as far as I'm concerned! I was told by MS and some reps from clonezilla,I may be able to do so but not necessarily be able to get it to function. I need some advice on how to get the recovery partition from the old HDD to a new one(this one).I have USB cloning cables as well as some which connect directly to the motherboard. I have a Presario CQ56 lap top,running Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1 now.

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