A General HP HDD Question

[Kubie]

A friend has a 2 year old HP pc that may need a HDD replacement.
The question is, will the restore disks load onto a fresh drive or is there a hidden partition on the HP drive that would require the purchase be made from HP?
Carl

[EzyStvy]

You'll need to look at the drive and or owners manual.
What operating system does it have now?
What's the model number?

[Kubie]

Hi Ezy,
Thats why I said general question. I don't have all the info.
Best Buy told her that the HDD needs to be replaced ($300.00 80gig) and that she had a virus, ($88.00 to tell her that). She called me to see if I could help. I'll get more info later tonight and post it.
Thanks for the reply.
Carl

[Force Flow]

I've only heard of Compaq machines with that problem. And since the machine was build before the merger, you could probably stick in any HDD.

[Panama Red]

Friend of mine bought an HP machine last year and I've worked on his plus a couple of others. They all have a restore partition on the hdd but don't come with restore disks anymore. The owner's manual suggest (highly recommends) using the CD-RW or DVD-RW on the unit to make your own restore disks. Takes one DVD or 8 CD's. If she didn't make any restore disks, you may have a problem.