Hello. My wife has an Inspiron 15 laptop. It had Windows 8 on it. Shortly after the warranty ran out, the hard drive started to go bad - bad sectors, etc.
I would like to put an SSD HD on the machine and reinstall Windows. The old drive was an SATA. I do not have any Windows License install disks. I do have a backup image of the full hard drive with all of the recovery and image partitions intact - from what I can tell anyway.
1) Can I buy just any SSD SATA drive and install it into an Inspiron 15 with all of the existing hardware or are there limitations and/or changes I need to do?
2) Is there way I can use the backup recovery and image partitions to re-install windows on the replacement drive.
Thanks much for the help!
