Hard drive Clone...

[thisguy08]

I have a dead laptop with a good hdd, and I have a recently purchased laptop that is in good working order I have in the past cloned hdd's and also I am aware of file transfers and such, my question is I want to use my hdd in the dead laptop to boot in the new laptop is it possible to boot the hdd from the dead laptop to a virtual machine and reassigning the drivers to generic so that I can plug that hard drive in the new purchase and boot?

 

[USAFRet]

The possibility of this actually working is small.
The possibility of it working, and the Windows OS actually activating is even smaller.

You can try it, though. It might work.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

convert the old hdd data into a virtual disk? yes, with disk2vhd, reassign drivers to generic? doubt it though you could try indeed...

 

[thisguy08]

The possibility of this actually working is small.
The possibility of it working, and the Windows OS actually activating is even smaller.

You can try it, though. It might work.

convert the old hdd data into a virtual disk? yes, with disk2vhd, reassign drivers to generic? doubt it though you could try indeed...

What I want to do is a way to access windows on the drive and set the ide/ata drivers to generic so it removes the chipset drivers and sets it back to before windows has loaded those drivers for the specific motherboard then use that drive to boot the new laptop with the old hdd would loading up from a virtual machine ruin those chances?

 

[USAFRet]

The possibility of this actually working is small.
The possibility of it working, and the Windows OS actually activating is even smaller.

You can try it, though. It might work.

convert the old hdd data into a virtual disk? yes, with disk2vhd, reassign drivers to generic? doubt it though you could try indeed...

What I want to do is a way to access windows on the drive and set the ide/ata drivers to generic so it removes the chipset drivers and sets it back to before windows has loaded those drivers for the specific motherboard then use that drive to boot the new laptop with the old hdd would loading up from a virtual machine ruin those chances?

Why?
Is there something specific you need that lives inside that old install? Boot from it and save that data elsewhere.
Or are you wanting to run a Windows (whatever) inside a VM? Ok...do that. Create the VM, and install the OS.

Accessing the current install, either as native hardware or in a VM, and having it actually boot and run properly probably will not work.

 

[thisguy08]

The possibility of this actually working is small.
The possibility of it working, and the Windows OS actually activating is even smaller.

You can try it, though. It might work.

convert the old hdd data into a virtual disk? yes, with disk2vhd, reassign drivers to generic? doubt it though you could try indeed...

What I want to do is a way to access windows on the drive and set the ide/ata drivers to generic so it removes the chipset drivers and sets it back to before windows has loaded those drivers for the specific motherboard then use that drive to boot the new laptop with the old hdd would loading up from a virtual machine ruin those chances?

Why?
Is there something specific you need that lives inside that old install? Boot from it and save that data elsewhere.
Or are you wanting to run a Windows (whatever) inside a VM? Ok...do that. Create the VM, and install the OS.

Accessing the current install, either as native hardware or in a VM, and having it actually boot and run properly probably will not work.

Originally it was a request from someone if it was possible I said no but the more I thought about it I am trying to see and think of an avenue to make it possible for just a creative reason mostly but also I would have 2 hdds with different OS and not need to have a dual boot setup or partition a drive to dual boot.