Copy the Recovery CD's that came with my Gateway Laptop to a new drive I installed

[Carole Sandman]

After a hard drive crash (no longer accessible), should I just partition the new drive and copy the CD's into the second partition. If so, how would I activate the recovery to the 1st partition. Since the CD's are not bootable, I need to know have to "rescue" my drive using the disks.

 

[JeckeL]

After a hard drive crash (no longer accessible), should I just partition the new drive and copy the CD's into the second partition. If so, how would I activate the recovery to the 1st partition. Since the CD's are not bootable, I need to know have to "rescue" my drive using the disks.

How come the cd's are not bootable? How would you normally use if that's the case?

Do you have a separate PC you could hook the laptop HDD up in, boot to whatever HDD the PC normally uses, run the CD's from there and just choose to format/install on the laptop HDD rather than the PC's native boot HDD with windows (or whatever OS)

 

[Carole Sandman]

After a hard drive crash (no longer accessible), should I just partition the new drive and copy the CD's into the second partition. If so, how would I activate the recovery to the 1st partition. Since the CD's are not bootable, I need to know have to "rescue" my drive using the disks.

How come the cd's are not bootable? How would you normally use if that's the case?

Do you have a separate PC you could hook the laptop HDD up in, boot to whatever HDD the PC normally uses, run the CD's from there and just choose to format/install on the laptop HDD rather than the PC's native boot HDD with windows (or whatever OS)

 

[Carole Sandman]

These are the original CD's that came with the Gateway Laptop. Geek Squad tried to find a way to boot from them and says there is no boot.ini on any of the disks, and they believe the disks are just defective. They say we need to get a new set of recovery disks that are bootable, but I don't know how.

Can you help me?

 

[rgd1101]

What is the exact label text on those disks?

 

[rgd1101]

duplicate post, if you don't want this. I'll close this.
http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-2645791/hard-drive-purchased-hard-drive-failed.html