Hi guys, I think I already know the answer to this but just want to double check before I go buy another copy of Windows 7 64 bit home premium. Here's the situation. My dad's hard drive on his toshiba satellite p505 s8980 is dying, it has trouble booting and is extremely slow when it loads Windows. Also, a message pops up as soon as you restart it saying that hard drive failure is imminent and to back up all your data. I got off all his documents and pictures and other personal stuff, and we ordered a new hard drive for the laptop, but the thing is his laptop did not come with a windows 7 disc to reinstall windows or a recovery partition to reinstall it from. So if/when his current hard drive fails we are going to need to get a new copy of windows 7. Is it possible to make an image of my laptop (we both have the same Windows 7 edition and type) and install it on his new hard drive? Or is it going to say when I try to restore my laptop's image on his computer, "we're sorry, windows cannot restore the image on this machine. please run the restore operation on the original machine" or some such thing?
Oh, and I already tried making an image from his machine. It gets to about 80% and then says there was an error on the hard drive and it cannot continue
Oh, and I already tried making an image from his machine. It gets to about 80% and then says there was an error on the hard drive and it cannot continue