Hi cris1234 My name is Vikram and I work for the Social Media and Community Team at Dell. I regret to hear that your system is freezing. I would suggest you to run the Dell diagnostics on your system to check if the hard drive has actually failed or not. Please restart your system and keep tapping "F12" as soon as the Dell logo appears. Please select "Diagnostics" and press enter. Please note down if you get any error code/message. Please reply back with the results. Glad to assist you! Thanks and regardsDell_Vikram_MDell Social Media Responder[URL]
I have a StudioXPS 1645 with a 500GB hard drive which has stopped working properly. I am going to replace it with either a 750GB or 1TB. My first choice for doing this would be to copy everything from the old hard drive to the new, but I can't rely on my computer to stay on for the whole process (it freezes up). I have all the disks that came with my computer (Windows 7 install, Sound Blaster, and Dell Drivers & Utilities) and could install windows on the new hard drive. My question is - Are all the programs that came on my computer (FastAccess, etc.) included in the Windows 7 install disk? I want my computer to be just as it was when I got it. If they're not on there, can I install Windows, then use the recovery disk I made when I got my computer to put the other programs on there? Or will the recovery disk no longer work? Thanks in advance for any help or tips.
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