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Answer» About a year and a half ago a purchased "PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant", and used it when going from Win XP to Win 7 in my computer, successfully. Without doing a Repair Install the old HDD probably wouldn't boot in the new laptop...unless they are close to identical... When I built my desktop, I simply moved my laptop's hard drive to the desktop. Works fine. ...Yes, my desktop's primary hard drive is a 2.5" laptop HD. I'm pretty suprised at that result for the fact that since XP the Windows install is tied directly to the PC that it was originally installed on... I've gotten lucky once or twice doing so but i certainly wouldn't state that it is normal behaviour...most PC's won't even boot to Windows when doing this in my experience.You can take a hard drive from one system and put it in another as a second drive, but you certainly can't take a system drive from one system, put it in a different system, and expect it to boot without doing either a repair install or a new install. I have a feeling we're not talking about exactly the same thing here.You might get lucky moving a system disk to another PC, ESPECIALLY if the hardware is a reasonable match (close or identical motherboard or PC model) but on a domestic system even if it booted you would run into activation issues. Of course a business with a volume license DEPLOYING cloned images would do it a certain way to stay license compliant.I haven't run into any of these issues, but I've only done it once. I have nothing else to compare to.Hence my comments above.... Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on April 07, 2013, 09:29:43 AM I haven't run into any of these issues, but I've only done it once.This issue here, to be perfectly clear, is device drivers. All the drivers for a PARTICULAR computer are part of the recovery partition or DVD tied the EXACT hardware COMPONENTS of that computer. Obviously, if you simply transfer a hard drive from one computer to another and that receiving computer is not identical to the source computer, you'll likely to encounter problems. In your case, either the two computers were quite similar or perhaps Windows found drivers for certain components without you being aware of it. If that was the case, those drivers may not be the best drivers for optimum performance or functionality. Quote from: soybean on April 07, 2013, 11:42:56 AM In your case, either the two computers were quite similar or perhaps Windows found drivers for certain components without you being aware of it. If that was the case, those drivers may not be the best drivers for optimum performance or functionality.Actually this was true. I had to download and install a couple of drivers, but that's nothing compared to re-installing an Operating System. |
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