Adding an SSD to a brand name computer

yclyzjohn

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Hi everyone. I have a 4 year old hp-dv7 laptop (Win 7) and it had been operating pretty slow. So I got a 120GB SSD in attempt to replace the system HDD. The computer came with two 500G HDD.

So far I have made a recovery disc, and removed all hard drives from the computer and installed the HDD in disk 0 bay. The computer would boot with recovery CD but provides error saying:

"This version of System Recovery Options is not comptible with the version of Windows you are trying to repair. Try using a recovery disc that is compatible with this version of windows."

I am wondering whether this error occurred because the laptop specs loaded on the recovery disc realizes the mismatch of the hard drive, or the problem occurred because previously I have cloned a Win XP on to this 120G HDD but didn't do a clean enough disk formatting.

I would greatly appreciate your help here because I am really hopeless and desperate to make progress. Thank you.
 
Solution
There is a difference between a recovery disc and an install disc. You cant "recover" an installation of Windows which isnt there pretty much.
Install Windows 7 from a bootable USB or get your hands on an install disc.