Is Windows 7 Corrupted Or Is My HDD Failing?

[erik62905]

Yesterday I built a computer for my sister. The RAM hasn't shipped yet so I gave her one of my 8 GB sticks today. I took the HDD out of her old computer and put it in the new one. (The computer is from 2013 and i think it is the same HDD that came with it) (WD Blue 1TB) (The computer is a Dell Inspiron 660s). On the original startup it made 5 beeps, restarted, then beeped 5 times again (in a loop). I fixed that and now I get 1 beep on startup. It crashes and blue-screens about 1 second into startup. I have tried running Startup Repair but it always ends up saying "Startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically". The old computer had a Pentium g2020, 8GB DDR3 RAM, and GT 710. I upgraded it to an i5-7500, GT 710 (same), and 8GB DDR4 RAM. I have no idea how to fix this issue, please help!

 

[ikaz]

You need to re-install windows 7, you can't just move a hard from one PC to another unless the motherboard and other hardware are the same or very very similar. Your getting blue screen because windows is trying to load drivers that don't match the new hardware.

 

[erik62905]

You need to re-install windows 7, you can't just move a hard from one PC to another unless the motherboard and other hardware are the same or very very similar. Your getting blue screen because windows is trying to load drivers that don't match the new hardware.

Okay. So how do I reinstall windows? I don't have the CD.

 

[nadimsadeeq9]

You need to wipe the hard drive and create a Windows 7 bootable USB (google it) and install windows.

 

[timmoseus]

Before you get carried away reinstalling, check BIOS settings on the new computer. I run into this a lot. Under the hard drive settings, see if you have options for AHCI, Legacy, RAID, etc. Try switching the setting and rebooting. I use AHCI when available, but if the computer is set to a different setting than what it was installed as, Windows tends to panic.

 

[ikaz]

Well you will probably need to buy a new windows code since you pulled the hard drive from Dell PC those licensee are OEM, which means you won't be able to use to use that license on a new PC. You can try and see if it lets as the license code should be on the case of the old dell. Otherwise I believe you can still download the software from MS, install it then activate the code once your buy your license.

 

[erik62905]

Thank you for all of your answers.

 

[dualboot87]

AHCI, SATA, & IDE modes have caused me many headaches in the past, definitely check those settings, thats probably where it is..

 

[erik62905]

I just decided to install the newest version of windows 10 as that's what she wanted. Thank you for all of your answers.

 

[Peter Martin]

Better off with latest