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-tr · 03-30-2009, 10:09 AM

Sorry for the late reply, turned out to be the Hard Drive which completely failed and now gives a disk read error on startup.

Now my question is if I get a new hard drive (assuming there's nothing that can be done to the old HDD), what is the best way to get an OS back? I can't afford a new hard drive and a brand new Vista license so

A: is there any way to transfer the license to the new HDD

or

B: what kind of alternatives should I be looking at? I had thought about Ubuntu/Linux but I need Visual Studio for my college classes.

Thanks for any help.

03-30-2009, 10:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
-tr Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 20 OS: Windows 7 RC1 Build 7100	Re: Sony Laptop Won't Boot Sorry for the late reply, turned out to be the Hard Drive which completely failed and now gives a disk read error on startup. Now my question is if I get a new hard drive (assuming there's nothing that can be done to the old HDD), what is the best way to get an OS back? I can't afford a new hard drive and a brand new Vista license so A: is there any way to transfer the license to the new HDD or B: what kind of alternatives should I be looking at? I had thought about Ubuntu/Linux but I need Visual Studio for my college classes. Thanks for any help.