Volume Trouble

[TheItMan]

Okay i got a new 120g hard drive for my compaq presario V2000 :) . So when i loaded XP onto it i was astonished at the lack of applications on it, they werent kidding when they said that it would be like gutting your computer.

So i went to youtube as i always do with new computers to test out how they run streaming video and i noticed that there was no sound. So i checked in the bottom right corner and also noticed that there was no speaker icon to display sound.

I also went to start, all programs, accessories, entertainment and finnaly volume. Once i got there it said that i had no items to get sound from and that i would need to add speakers and there software. Problem is that i ordered my laptop and it came with all of the standard things and above standard things already installed.

So my question to you is how do i get the volume back onto my computer since iv already tried windows' suggestion, and as a second option is it possible to back up a system onto an external hardrive and put it onto the new hard drive. Then it would just be the same computer with more gigs. Which one would you guys recommend.

[-pops-]

There is much more to a computer than its operating system - even before you download programs. There are numerous drivers required for sound cards, graphics card, BIOS, sometimes even the CPU itself, and more.

If you replace the hard drive these "extra bits" specific to that model on computer will not be there.

Do you have a disk which the drivers on it? These are usually supplied with the computer if it is supplied with an operating system disk. If not then the whole lot (O/S and drivers) should be on a disk or on a recovery disk that you might have been instructed to make when you first had the machine.