Hello everybody,
I have recently have problems with my hard drive and have many important files on it that I want to restore.
So I bought a new 320 gb hard drive for my laptop and installed it in the laptop.
I know this is kind of a n00b question but I was wondering how I can install the copy of windows vista that came with my laptop on this new hard drive.
I also need help with software. I need software that will bypass the file structure system (which is what is corrupted on my hard drive) and restore the files that are on my hard drive. I have software to do this but it only gives me the option to restore deleted files on that hard drive, not the non-deleted ones which the file system destroyed.
By the way, I have an Hp Compaq C700 (if that helps)

Thanks!!

gingabr, hi and welcome. I would like to know more about the errors that you were getting with the old hard drive in order to help you determine how to recover files from it. You say that the file system is corrupted -- did you get an error message that said that? What software do you have now that won't do the recovery? Also, you say that you want to recover files that were "destroyed". If they are really destroyed, there is no going back.

Also, I used a few programs:
Among those were:
Photrec
Easus data recovery

Thank You so much, that is a really helpful solution, I will be using it ASAP

Yes, that is possible with Acronis or Norton Ghost (which I use). Their main purpose, of course, is to make system backups (I do that once a week). But you can switch the disk and write back to a new disk - it works like a normal recovery. For recovery, you boot Acronis or Ghost from the CD - that's why you must have the CD. There are other (cheaper but much more difficult) ways to do it. Also, in Vista Ultimate, there is a built in Vista functions to do that.

In the Backup and Restore Center (complete PC backup). http://www.microsoft.com/windo.....ackup.aspx