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I currently have an 80GB hdd, and wanted to put a 200gb on it. I already made the recovery disc. I was wondering if it is possible to just take out the 80gb, and format the 200 and put it in the laptop and use the recovery disk? Im going to save the 80 and format the 200gb as a new drive in my laptop. will i stll have the partition for the recovery if i did that? Using my recovery disk? Thanks

I was thinking of doing a fresh installation on the new 200gb empty drive using my recovery disc. Is it possible?

The recovery discs will make the recovery partition on your new hard drive during the install process.

Just swap the new drive in, pop in the boot disc and plan to sit there for about 45 mins.

I would presume that shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time on my T42 with different sized hdd's. Don't take my word for it - although it works for me - cuz there could be differences with the R&R and the T6x's.

You'd have to make sure you have all the disks burned properly, etc. If you're simply replacing the 80G drive with a 200Gb, then you still keep all the original info (hidden partition, etc) on the 80G drive. Keep that in a safe place just in case. Plop in the 200GB and boot up with the R&R disks you made (usually 1 Rescue and Recovery disk followed by the "Product Recovery CDs or DVDs)...

I wouldn't partition or format the new drive. If the drive is completely blank the recovery disks should make the recovery partition. Thats how the factory ones work. I think the ones you make yourself do the same, but I cannot remember for sure.

Hopefully you have better luck, but when I recently tried the same the self-made recovery disks never made the resulting service/recovery partition bootable. The recovery process created the service partition, but the necessary files to boot its operating system were missing (See this thread for more details.)

well, I have not installed my new hdd yet because i was going to get it at newegg, but the price went up for that. I'll wait until it is a little cheeper again.

BTW, i read your post and it sound weary. I want that partial rescue and recovery on my hdd, but since thinkvantage won't work i wonder. Is it possible to make a backup using r&r on an external usb hdd and then swap out my 80, and put in a new 200gb hdd, and use that backup with the rescue recovery disc?

not sure if it's any cheaper on newegg but check this out

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=617771



We were talking about the Hitachi external drive at Best Buy. It's a regular HDD in there so you can just rip it out and use it. 200GB for $120 It's even cheaper than the other "internal" drive which costs $150 for the same drive

EDIT - Newegg sells it for $150 also for the 5400RPM one