Help!! Replacing my laptop's dead hard drive

[cabech984]

Hi, My laptop recently took a poop and I figured out that the Hard drive died. I tried putting it in my external hd case but my desktop doesn't recognize it, just like it doesn't recognize a brand new never formatted hard drive. I've decided to install a new, bigger hard drive into the laptop.

My question is, can I install the new hard drive and use the Windows recovery discs that came with the laptop? Or would I need also need a new copy of Windows 7 to install onto the hd?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[OldMX]

Use the recovery disks.

 

[Matt897]

you could try the recovery disks....and/or try to clone the drive to the new one using a second computer.