Help! - Reinstalling Windows 7 on new hard drive

[shanedavison28]

A family members laptop needs a new hard drive as Windows loads REALLY slowly and then a couple error messages appear saying the hard drive is 'screwed'.

If we bought a new hard drive how would I transfer Windows 7 from the old hard drive to the new one? Otherwise the new hard drive wont have Windows on it.

Thanks in advance

 

[Kieranbs01]

You are best installing a fresh copy of w7 to ensure that all the drivers will work correctly, mirroring/copying all o/s files wouldn't work properly. Would probably try doing a fresh reinstall on the current hd or do a good clean up on the o/s to see if that will increase the operating speed first.

 

[conneh]

First thing i would do is run CCleaner, and do a registry fix.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Then run Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

And then run Smart Defrag, and also defrag the boot files

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

If that all makes no difference, then i would just re-install a fresh copy of W7 on to the HDD.

 

[Goodj]

TIme for a clean install I reckon.

THen once you've got the new drive working, plug the old one in to scavenge your files.

 

[Adam.]

Download the iso from digital river site and use the key on the stick that should be on the bottom of the laptop.

 

[shanedavison28]

First thing i would do is run CCleaner, and do a registry fix.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Then run Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

And then run Smart Defrag, and also defrag the boot files

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

If that all makes no difference, then i would just re-install a fresh copy of W7 on to the HDD.

Ok I will try these 3 steps. Thanks

 

[shanedavison28]

The message that pops up after Windows finally loads says...

Windows detected a hard disk problem.

Back up your files immediatley to prevent information loss, and then contact the computer manufacturer to determine if you need to repair or replace the disk.

 

[shanedavison28]

So this would mean that its a hardware problem so the CCleaner will probs not make a difference as a need hard drive is required by the looks of things.

I will try anyway.

 

[realnumber 1]

First thing i would do is run CCleaner, and do a registry fix.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Then run Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

And then run Smart Defrag, and also defrag the boot files

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

If that all makes no difference, then i would just re-install a fresh copy of W7 on to the HDD.

Before doing any of that I'd make a full backup/image of the drive in case the drive dies...