Can i use my recovery disk to put my win 7 on this mobo
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Recovery disks from a company (dell, hp, etc.) usually don't work on generic systems.
182010
Mine came with Windows 7 professional installed and with recovery disks for Windows 8 should you want to upgrade.
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The 745 is fine. It will handle Windows 7 readily. Like CrabAss said, what the cause of the failure? Power supply, motherboard burn-out? If it's a problem with the old drive like a virus, then you will just be replicating the problem in a new PC if you hook up the old HDD as a slave. Assuming there is nothing wrong with the old HDD, then follow Crabasse's instructions.
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Yes mine came with the recovery disk. Also fresh install of win 7 was on the pc.
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Hello,You can call HP Tech Support and check if Recovery Disc with Win 7 for this model available.Best regards,Amuras
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You don;t say what your OS is, so I will assume Windows 7. Once you have installed the drive into the case, either in a floppy drive slot or with the extra brackets that are available, into a 3.5" drive slot, attach the floppy power able to the white power adapter and the floppy cable to the data port, then to the floppy port on the motherboard. Windows 7 should find the drivers, but if not, go to iomega.com and download the appropriate drivers. It should be very straight forward.
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Yes you can. But after upgrading it if it not work, you'll need to upgrade the Bios. Then you good to go.
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not sure what you mean by all thats needed .. plug it in screw it down ready to go .. install windows or just use it for storage or what ever you want .. on my MSI board it uses sata port 6
1250807
If your computer BIOS supports booting from an optical drive (and all new ones do) this will work fine. you will probably have to go into the BIOS and set your drive to be the first boot item.
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Yes. Works great. I was upgrading my pc from 32 bit to 64 bit and only had an upgrade version of Windows 7. So I had to clone my hard drive so the install disk would find Windows installed. The entire install process, between the SSD and my new CPU and mobo took no time at all.
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Yes. You have to go int0 the BIOS and turn on legacy boot (sorry I forget the exact setting but a google search will get you pointed in the right direction). I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed on mine and it works flawlessly.
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We include the original Dell Win 7 Pro 64 bit restore media for recovery or later installation. Thanks
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That should work just find. Remember that it is the OS that will or will not recognize the size of the drive(s), not the hardware in most cases. But motherboard BIOS might be questioned and looked into just to double check
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I used a SATA drive for the boot disk and it was running Windows Vista.It did have an IDE CD-ROM drive that worked fine.I think the BIOS allows you to set the IDE drive as the boot, but I no longer have the system with me.My family member went back to their home, out of state, so I have no way of testing.
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Check the requirements for the OS you want, in this case Win 7. You will probably be Ok. The RAM in these machines are fairly easy to change out and upgrade.
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Not likely. the hardware, including the mother board may not be compatible. the Windows web site can provide relavent info. The hard drive must be formated in order to install Win. XP. It is easy to go forward and very difficult to go back.
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If you are trying to ask if you can turn it into a boot drive where you can load OS's from then yes you can. You will have to download specific software that will wipe the drive and then install the OS onto the drive to be installed on your computer.