So i recently shorted my old laptop out by way of general self stupidity... i tried to use a too high output voltage dc adapter with a usb hub but thats besides the point. What im trying to do now is im trying to use the OS installed on my laptops harddrive to boot another computer i was able to get it to boot correctly but i figured there was going to be hardware/software issues due to the new environment but after looking around on the web for a while i cant seem to find any tutorials on what steps you would need to take to successfully intergrate the old OS with the new hardware environment.