Upgrading a laptop hard drive help

[Sulsy]

hello

im wanting to upgrade my laptop hard drive and i just wondered if this mean i would need to reinstall windows and if my recovery disk i have now would still work

cheers

 

[identity_00]

I believe you would need to install windows again. Your recovery disk would work that same as it does now. The OS is the same.

 

[matrics]

How about if you made an exact copy of your old hard drive?

 

[jstep]

not upgrading windows version are you?

 

[Sulsy]

i want to uprade my hard drive from 20gb to 80gb and i have windows xp but i dont have a disk as windows xp comes built in on the hd i have now would i need to buy a new one?