New hard drive/windows ultimate

Just received my new A660 last week. My son told me before I do anything download my new windows 7 ultimate.
Naturally it wiped out the original hard drive. And of course I did not do a hard drive backup. (I have a new one one its way). This is my question. My son says to keep the windows ultimate on and download drivers from Toshiba website because Toshiba puts a lot of unnecessary applications on. Toshiba techs said no do not do that.
I am afraid I might miss some of the features I bought in the first place. But I also want the Ultimate on my computer. What a mess! Thank you in advance.

Satellite A660-BTZn23
Maybe this one?
Satellite A660-BT2N23
So you probably had 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium on that machine.
My son says to keep the windows ultimate on and download drivers from Toshiba website because Toshiba puts a lot of unnecessary applications on. Toshiba techs said no do not do that.I am afraid I might miss some of the features I bought in the first place. But I also want the Ultimate on my computer.
I believe the best way to put Windows 7 Ultimate on there is to first restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media and then upgrade. It's far easier and you're less apt to run into difficulties using the original build. You can uninstall crapware.
I did not do a hard drive backup. (I have a new one one its way).
I take that to mean you will soon be able to restore from recovery discs that are on order.
After that, take advantage of Windows Anytime Upgrade to upgrade to Ultimate.
Windows Anytime Upgrade
-Jerry

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How to install Windows 7 on new hard drive?

I have changed the old hard drive (500 gb) with a new hard dirve (1 Tera), and now I have two problems: -
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by the way this is my laptop spec (for reference) ; -
* Note *
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I hope somebody will help me answer my question,
Thank You
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I got the solution;
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For I CAN NOT get the recovery disks, and I'm not in USA. There will be a way to get it via download?
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Satellite L455-S5975
I CAN NOT get the recovery disks, and I'm not in USA. There will be a way to get it via download?
There is no opportunity to download it, Richo. Your best bet is to have an acquaintance in the USA, Latin America, or Canada order the recovery discs and ship them to you.
-Jerry

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Yes, of course! See the link to your model's spec above.
My apologies. The previous link went to a spec for the Satellite A505-S6960 (which came with Windows Vista installed). I had too many spec pages open at the same time and got them mixed.
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1) A retail OS should have worked. That particular motherboard's NVidia Sata controller chip had a bad batch. You need to make sure the hard drive is recognized in the BIOS. If not, nothing can be done.
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I got it. It CAN be done. At least on 10.6
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I'm not sure this is the issue, but from your description, it seems as though all you have to do is activate the windows update service. If I were you, I'd search for "Services" in the start menu, open it and look for "Windows Update". Check in its properties that it is set to "Automatic (Delayed)", if it isn't, set it, and start the service, you should then be able to check for updates, be careful though that none of your other programs aren't stopping the service, usually these programs are there to "optimize your performance" or "boost your system",...
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