Lowest Possible Hardware Needed

[Kisco]

I slapped one of my new hard drives with windows 10 installed in it into an old computer for server reasons. Anyways when it boots up all it shows is the mother board image and then the windows 10 logo. Not even the spinning dots. I think this has to do with something hardware wise. Where to find this specific info or if anyone is willing to help would mean a lot. Thanks!

 

[Multipack]

Using an existing Windows installation on a different system is asking for trouble. Your motherboard setting are probably wrong, and you will be lucky to get it working at all, not to mention it wont be an activated copy.

What are the specs of the two PC's?

 

[Kisco]

Using an existing Windows installation on a different system is asking for trouble. Your motherboard setting are probably wrong, and you will be lucky to get it working at all, not to mention it wont be an activated copy.

What are the specs of the two PC's?

Well, to clarify the hard drive is from a laptop. But seemed to boot up fine on my gaming rig (where I installed windows 10) And the old computer I have no Idea. If you need me to look at it I will but I'm not going too unless its necessary ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Multipack]

Well I could say I'm not going to answer unless it's necessary 😛 but transferring a disk with Windows 10 is always likely to fail.

You could try running the Win 10 installer from a flash drive and using the repair tool, but you may find it hangs or corrupts the OS permanently.

 

[ac13044]

yea doing that results are bad disk errors not starting or booting up as when installed on a motherboard it is configed to that mobo.

 

[bootcher]

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Question from Kisco : "Lowest Possible Hardware Nedded"

I slapped one of my new hard drives with windows 10 installed in it into an old computer for server reasons. Anyways when it boots up all it shows is the mother board image and then the windows 10 logo. Not even the spinning dots. I think this has to do with something hardware wise. Where to find this specific info or if anyone is willing to help would mean a lot. Thanks!

It's because you need to perform a clean install , switching HDD to another setup , doesn't always boot because of many reasons , different chipsets , different drivers , unrecognized hardware etc.

Your windows 10 install will not work properly, if at all on another computer, especially if it is an older computer with old hardware that probably is not supported by windows 10. You might try to get into windows through safe mode, but it might not work at all. If it does work you will need to install all drivers for your computer in the windows 10 install, if available. Best practice would be to do a fresh install, but again you will need the windows 10 drivers for it to work properly.