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I have Windows-7 64 bit on an HP dv8 laptop that came with two physical hard drives - C & D. I have a recent system image and other files and folders on drive D. Drive C has failed and the computer won't boot. I don't have a spare hard drive so I want to remove drive C from the system and use drive D as a standalone drive until I get a new hard drive.
The question is - how can I make drive D the boot drive AND restore the system image on it to the same drive? If this is even possible, would it delete the other files on drive D (i.e. the files other than the system image)?
Also, would I need to change hardware settings first?
1Please see my response to the poster below (I don't know why the answers switched order). Since you have also suggested use of an external drive, the same response applies to your answer as well. Thank you and I will mark your answer as accepted. – Roger – 2013-06-11T04:54:32.980