Hey folks,
My intension is to upgrade my XP machine to Win 7, but I want to use a Win 7 formatted HDD taken from my other (damaged)
laptop.
*Both versions/copies of Windows are leagal, and owned by me.*
The Win 7 HDD is already in an external enclosure, and I can access [most of] it sucessfully via USB from my
Win XP laptop. I've upgraded my RAM to 2G, and have migrated all the files I want to keep to that same external Win 7 HDD.
The Win XP HDD (in the machine) has enough free space to make the upgrade-(19G's Free).
Dumb question: Simply swapping a like-for-like HDD with one formatted with a different Operating System, does not effecively
upgrade a machine, right ? Reassigning the boot drive that has a different OS than the one the machine was manufactured with,
isn't possible either, is it ?
I have already tried to reassign the boot drive from the Win XP HDD to my USB connected Win 7 external HDD, in the
start up menu. No luck, obviously. I'm trying to avoid redundantly purchasing another copy of Win 7, when I already have a drive
formatted with it.
What am I missing ? Please help.
-Brian M.
My intension is to upgrade my XP machine to Win 7, but I want to use a Win 7 formatted HDD taken from my other (damaged)
laptop.
*Both versions/copies of Windows are leagal, and owned by me.*
The Win 7 HDD is already in an external enclosure, and I can access [most of] it sucessfully via USB from my
Win XP laptop. I've upgraded my RAM to 2G, and have migrated all the files I want to keep to that same external Win 7 HDD.
The Win XP HDD (in the machine) has enough free space to make the upgrade-(19G's Free).
Dumb question: Simply swapping a like-for-like HDD with one formatted with a different Operating System, does not effecively
upgrade a machine, right ? Reassigning the boot drive that has a different OS than the one the machine was manufactured with,
isn't possible either, is it ?
I have already tried to reassign the boot drive from the Win XP HDD to my USB connected Win 7 external HDD, in the
start up menu. No luck, obviously. I'm trying to avoid redundantly purchasing another copy of Win 7, when I already have a drive
formatted with it.
What am I missing ? Please help.
-Brian M.