I mean, I assume there will be an issue between the HP stuff on the drive and the Acer machine regarding drivers and all that so.Download driver Seagate SeaTools SSD GUI Drivers version 4.0.48, v.3.1.989 for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (圆4). Obviously the primary partition is where it needs to be installed but I am wondering. When attempting to install the operating system and it asks me where I want to install it I am shown the 4 partitions with the HP recovery, HP tools, system and Primary. I am putting a hard drive from a HP Compaq into an Acer machine (both drives had the same OS on them). Obviously it still has all the info on the drive from the old laptop so I am wondering

I pulled a smaller drive out of a laptop I had laying around that has a bad motherboard and replaced the bad drive with it. Tried using a win7 disc I had to repair and or reinstall the OS but it hangs up.

tried accessing the acer e recovery on the hidden partition but it hangs up. it appears I cannot do anything with that drive.

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