Hi,
I'm new here, if I posted in the wrong spot, please redirect me.
I apologize in advance, I'm not very tech savvy either. I know just enough to be dangerous to myself.
What I'd like to do is be able to boot to the HD that was in my Dell Optiplex 780 Desktop, that was a Win 8/10 hybrid., that got struck by lightning as well as boot to this HD in this Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop which is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
I currently have access to the Win 8/10 HD on this Dell 745 machine thru file explorer on Win 7.
The HD survived the hit, and it would boot up but I got an error message that it could not find a keyboard. I even got the 780 machine to go into repair mode, and it would have run if the machine would have recognized either a keyboard or a mouse. But it wouldn't, no matter which USB port I tried or which keyboard or mouse.
While reading thru the forum I found this post here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...-on-separate-hard-drives.1314086/post-9912790
that seems to be close to what I am wanting to do.
Will that work for my situation (only in reverse) as this machine has the Win 7 64-bit OS and I want to add the other HD in a dual-boot scenario that already has the Win 8/10 32-Bit OS. installed.
I did go into the BIOS on this machine thinking I should be able to simply change the boot order, but although it sees the 2nd HD it does not allow me to add it to the boot sequence. If I said that right.
Thanks much in advance for any help.
I'm new here, if I posted in the wrong spot, please redirect me.
I apologize in advance, I'm not very tech savvy either. I know just enough to be dangerous to myself.
What I'd like to do is be able to boot to the HD that was in my Dell Optiplex 780 Desktop, that was a Win 8/10 hybrid., that got struck by lightning as well as boot to this HD in this Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop which is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
I currently have access to the Win 8/10 HD on this Dell 745 machine thru file explorer on Win 7.
The HD survived the hit, and it would boot up but I got an error message that it could not find a keyboard. I even got the 780 machine to go into repair mode, and it would have run if the machine would have recognized either a keyboard or a mouse. But it wouldn't, no matter which USB port I tried or which keyboard or mouse.
While reading thru the forum I found this post here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...-on-separate-hard-drives.1314086/post-9912790
that seems to be close to what I am wanting to do.
Will that work for my situation (only in reverse) as this machine has the Win 7 64-bit OS and I want to add the other HD in a dual-boot scenario that already has the Win 8/10 32-Bit OS. installed.
I did go into the BIOS on this machine thinking I should be able to simply change the boot order, but although it sees the 2nd HD it does not allow me to add it to the boot sequence. If I said that right.
Thanks much in advance for any help.