Dell Install a Hard Drive and Do a Fresh Install of Windows 10. And then explains how to do a fresh install of Windows 10. State drive to a laptop by replacing the DVD or Blu-ray drive. How to remove a laptop hard drive. This is on a Dell Inspiron, but many other laptops will be similar. Donations appreciated - click in upper right corner 'info' circle.

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My problem is this – my main drive failed today. It doesn’t seem to be spinning. There is power going to it as the light flashes for a few seconds.

The error message says to install the boot media and in the, the hard drive is not even showing. It’s just the C Drive and all of my important stuff is on my external drives, which I do regularly. Hence, I’ll be replacing it soon. However, the computer only came with recovery discs. I’ve already tried reformatting the new drive using the recovery but it just keeps going back to the “Windows is loading files” screen. I changed a hard drive a few years ago but I had a startup disc to boot from. This machine does not have a boot disc.

It’s Windows 7 and if I remember correctly, my other replacement used Windows XP.You might be in a bit of a pickle.There a number of things I gleaned from your question. Most of them are bad news. A possible glimmer of hope: you said you have your important stuff on external drives that you regularly. If you meant that you’ve been doing full system image backups, you’ll probably be fine.

Become a and go ad-free! Backups to the rescue?When you say you back up regularly, how do you do so?If you’re doing a full system, which is what I recommend folks do (at least periodically), then to put it bluntly, you’re golden. You can replace the drive, boot from the backup software rescue media, restore the image backup; and you’ll be off and running.But if you’re not doing that, then the news is grim. If the disk doesn’t spin, time to pack it inIf the disk isn’t spinning, then it’s dead, absolutely dead. You can’t reformat a drive that doesn’t spin.The fact is, you and I can’t even recover data. A data recovery service perhaps could, but you and I cannot.Most of the recovery discs, like the ones it looks like you have, rely on a pristine copy of the operating system that’s stored on a hidden on that hard drive disk.

That means that the recovery discs you have in hand have no chance of working. OptionsYou have two options.

Some manufacturers will send you a true installation disc if you contact them with this problem. Some will only do it, of course, if you’ve actually bought the replacement hard drive from them. Contact the manufacturer of your computer, or the retailer from whom you bought it, and see what options they’re willing to provide.You could get lucky. If you don’t, then your only one real option is to get the installation media yourself.In your case, that means purchasing a copy of Windows 7 retail and installing it from scratch once the drive has been replaced.

Of course, you can also consider another operating system like, which is free. But to get back to something close to what you started with, you’ll need a Windows installation disc.And I strongly recommend that you start a periodic image backup of your machine to avoid disasters like this in the future. Computers are being sold without recovery media fairly often.

That can create difficulties if you run into major problems. At some point, you're going to need your Windows installation CD/DVD. If you don't have it, you could be severely out of luck.

I'll review alternatives. You can indeed create rescue media to restore your machine to any point in time. Rather than calling it rescue media, though, it's nothing more than an image backup. You may not need every kind of rescue disc possible, but you should certainly have one from your backup program.Posted: June 5, 2014in:Shortlink:Tagged:,. New Here?Let me suggest my to get you started.Of course I strongly recommend you - there's a ton of information just waiting for you.Finally, if you just can't find what you're looking for,! Leo Who?I'm and I've been playing with computers since I took a required programming class in 1976. I spent over 18 years as a software engineer at Microsoft, and after 'retiring' in 2001 I started in 2003 as a place to help you find answers and become more confident using this amazing technology at our fingertips.

Hi LeoThere may be another option for this individual. I have used iso downloads of Windows 7 both retail and OEM. Dell for example provides some iso’s for Dell products. If this can be found another computer, or a patient friend, could download the file, burn it using ImgBurn or a similar tool, and then install it on a new drive. I have done this more than once for my clients.

If someone he knows has a retail full or upgrade disk, it can be used to reinstall if he doesn’t need an OEM. Of course, either way the original valid product key will need to be used. Does that make sense?Thanks for all your great articles. In older times, hard drives had at least one shaft bearing on the outside. Several times, I had a drive that was not turning reliably but by placing a drop of light oil on the bearing, the drive was repaired. I used one for two years after adding one drop of oil.

Today the bearings are inside a cover but I suppose the same problem must be happening so if the cover is removed, try oiling the bearing.I have also freed up the read head when it had overshot and was stuck on the side. It sometimes worked.You might think you need a clean room for these operations but I never found a problem just opening disks in a room. Blow off any dust you can see, if there is any. Before commenting please:.

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