Changing a hard drive

[eljonan]

Long story short, my sony vaio's hard drive got busted and i replaced it with the hard drive from an old compaq i had laying about. I did the windows restore thinking it would try to identify the laptops components on its own but now it thinks that it is the old compaq again. Is there anything i could do to have it detect the actual components or do i have to do a clean install of windows to have that happen?

 

[yoji]

If you did the windows restore/recovery then it will put it back to "factory settings".. so yes.. as it was as a Compaq.
But if windows is working.. that suggests its working well enough that it should update itself with drivers etc as it detects "new hardware"... or if you do a windows update....
But branding will still be Compaq.. but that's not a real worry? though you may want to uninstall Compaq specific tools and download any Vaio specific tools you want from Sony.

Cheers