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Replace hard drive but can't load tablet operating system

The hard drive on my tc 4200 failed. It came with a 40 gig Toshiba hard drive and I replaced it with a Samsung 160 gig drive. However, I was not able to load the tablet operating system. I was able to install XP Professional and the machine works find as a laptop, but of course I have lost the tablet functionality.

How can I install the tablet operating system?




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  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    Just what happened when you tried to reload the tablet operating system?

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I bouht one used and had no tablet pc restore discs, but my 40 GB hard drive was full of programs. I cloned the drive with operating system reimaged my 160 GB hard drive with the image. You need to use partition software to repartition the new drive to " see" the larger drive with free space. This can be done before or afte. I did it after because i had to go thru trial and error acouple of times due to no real concrete info on the web.

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I have a number of these units in my business. I believe I read somewhere that this unit's bios limits HD to 120gb. If you are using restore disks, there might be an issue with the drive size. Just a thought. HP sells the restore disks on their site.

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Do you have the system restore disks for your tablet? Once you have restored windows then you need to use the second disk to load all the drivers

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