I mean, I assume there will be an issue between the HP stuff on the drive and the Acer machine regarding drivers and all that so. Obviously the primary partition is where it needs to be installed but I am wondering. When attempting to install the operating system and it asks me where I want to install it I am shown the 4 partitions with the HP recovery, HP tools, system and Primary. I am putting a hard drive from a HP Compaq into an Acer machine (both drives had the same OS on them).

Obviously it still has all the info on the drive from the old laptop so I am wondering SeaTools is a powerful diagnostic application that helps you to quickly determine the condition of the disk drive and Hard Disk health of an external hard drive and Windows desktop or laptop. I pulled a smaller drive out of a laptop I had laying around that has a bad motherboard and replaced the bad drive with it. Tried using a win7 disc I had to repair and or reinstall the OS but it hangs up. However, if either tool comes across a bad sector, the hardware in the hard drive will automatically move the.

tried accessing the acer e recovery on the hidden partition but it hangs up. If you think your disk is going bad, run SeaTools.

it appears I cannot do anything with that drive.

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