I have a Acer Aspire 6930 laptop and am putting a new hard drive in it. Can you tell me if this will work to restore widows vista on it? Any info.
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No it won't. I wanted to reinstall my machine with vista but this cd is not for that purpose. I tried contacteibg the seller but they just ignored me.
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I have my 8350 FX ASUS Sabertooth windows PC. It's a storage drive atm. I tried putting windows on it but, I gave up because I was tired and didn't want to re-install all my driver and stuff again. I had windows on this drive and it worked. I removed windows and am using it as a storage drive and such because I'm not wanting to take the time to get all the drivers again. It work just great!
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Hi Stuart. I used one of Laplink's 'PCMover' programs to upgrade from Vista to Win7; it worked really well and was simple to use.There is a PDF guide which you can download and print out; this takes you step by step through the upgrade process. Laplink's support team headed by Ray Pettit is excellent; you can chat online for help if needed. This link will advise you which program is most suitable : http://www.laplink.com/index.php/individuals/pcmover-for-windows-8/feature-overview Regards Bob.
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Mine has the Reinstall DVD for Windows 7 64 bit, and another DVD for drivers. What I really wanted to ask was for the Restore DVD -- a DVD that will restore the laptop to its original, out of the box state. However, none of the included DVDs provide that, not even the reinstall DVD and driver DVD. I emailed dell support and they agreed to provide me with a replacement drive to assist with my restore process.
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I have windows vista and it worked pefectly. Should work with all, it's just seen as an drive.
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I would recommend contacting Phoenix. We are running ours on a laptop running Vista and a friend is using his laptop which is Windows 7 I believe. In theory it "should" work...but Phoenix can better answer!
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Based on Amazon reviews of external floppies, this one seemed best choice of several. I got lucky - quick plug n play with WIN7, and can't speak for a Vista system. Hopefully, your replacement will work.
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Thank you. So I ordered the drive and followed instructions for installing but it is not recognized by Windows 7 and the trouble shooting guide is useless. Then I tried it on a laptop running Vista and it started installing but finally gave up saying to contact the manufacturer. This is the 3rd time I have bought an item based on information from persons who claim to own the product that turned out to be a big mistake
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The best way to go about it is to wipe the hard drive for a clean install of 64 bit Windows7. There are drivers for Win7 64 bit on Acer's site so I imagine there wouldn't be any problems. As soon as mine arrives I plan to wipe and install Win7.
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Not sure, I am running Win-7 and all is fine. I know the unit works great as I have watched countless videos off my 7 year old Dell laptop with no problems. I have upgraded the old hard drive to an SSD as you ne d the speed for files coming off the disk to the unit. With the old hard drive, it sometimes stuttered but that may have been the old CPU holding it back. I am very high tech level and know the unit works great if used properly and with decent other gear set up correctly. I no longer have any PCs running XP so I can't test it for you but it is working great here on both 7 and 8.2 machines. I highly recommend the product. If you can set up a second monitor out of you Dell, then try mirrored mode with that. If that doesn't work either, then your problem is with your laptop or Windows install. If it does work, I can't say why the convertor setup is not as mine works fine... Great picture too...
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I installed in HP 2730p 6 months ago & it works great, faster, cooler are some of the benefits. I would have preferred higher capacity but they seem to have stopped making the larger, about double the capacity, SSD. It should work, but don't know specifically if it will work for the Dell, but I suggest that you at least partially remove the old orig hard drive to see if anything physically unusual about it such as connector adapter used or not. Other than that I don't see why it wouldn't work...also mine had Vista on it originally so I upgraded to Win 7 64 immediately, which made it very easy to set up. I installed in HP 2730p 6 months ago & it works great, faster, cooler are some of the benefits. I would have preferred higher capacity but they seem to have stopped making the larger, about double the capacity, SSD. It should work, but don't know specifically if it will work for the Dell, but I suggest that you at least partially remove the old orig hard drive to see if anything physically unusual about it such as connector adapter used or not. Other than that I don't see why it wouldn't work...also mine had Vista on it originally so I upgraded to Win 7 64 immediately, which made it very... » Read More I installed in HP 2730p 6 months ago & it works great, faster, cooler are some of the benefits. I would have preferred higher capacity but they seem to have stopped making the larger, about double the capacity, SSD. It should work, but don't know specifically if it will work for the Dell, but I suggest that you at least partially remove the old orig hard drive to see if anything physically unusual about it such as connector adapter used or not. Other than that I don't see why it wouldn't work...also mine had Vista on it originally so I upgraded to Win 7 64 immediately, which made it very easy to set up. « Show Less
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I never tried since my laptop (old) came in vista and I tried it only up to windows 7. You may shoot the question to the seller.
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the answer for me was yes and no. Yes, it worked well enough so that the repair system from my backup cds was able to reinstall everything after the cloning procedure left me with enough errors that I was unable to start Windows 8 normally. My experience was with a refurbed HP Elite laptop that came with windows 8 preinstalled. My hope for you is that you took the time to prepare a complete backup with a boot sector. Good luck. Larry Fitzpatrick.
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Sorry, but I installed it on a Late version Vista machine, and it works wonderfully! Next June I intend to rebuild this computer, and run on the latest version of Windows. I want to add more RAM than the motherboard on this machine can support (6Gb). Having bought two of those Pioneer drives, I also installed one Pioneer Blu-ray reader/burner on a new custom built PC, where I run Windows 8. I have experienced only good to great performance with the Pioneer units.
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That drive is compatible with WINDOWS OS from XP through 8.1 64 bit. So it will work with VISTA. . Hope this helps!
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H:If your Laptop computer has PATA , it should work, but please be ware that you should look at the date manufactured on the drive, and also get information about the drive using a free software " SPECCY" -VERY IMPORTANT
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I purchased this HD to replace the original hard drive of my HP PAVILLION dv7-1243cl - if you have removed your hard drive you will see a label with details about the drive - it would appear this drive works with your laptop - I suggest you contact the vendor to confirm - the vendor supposedly warranties HD for 1-3 years - Link-Tronics . 12630 Westminster Ave. #A, Santa Ana, CA 92706. Phone:714-554-8677. Hour: M-F 10AM-6PM. Founded in 1994 - my new HD has been working okay now for about 6 months - you will have to reinstall WINDOWS - hope you have system disks or image. I luckily located a 3rd party that had WINDOWS 7 OS for sale otherwise I would have been out of luck.