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Originally Posted by cheerfulcharlie
If the hard drive is the original HP supplied one, then on the disk will be a small sector that deals with general house keeping of the HP computer, because it is hidden it obviously never gets wiped..this should alert you when there are SMART issues etc.
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There's a small partition, but it's not essential - I've replaced drives in many an HP business PC over the years with no problems. The only particularly useful thing is the diagnostics, but for the last few generations (I can't remember how far back) that's all in BIOS, and for older computers you can download CD image (for the 8000 Elite the image is
here).