New HDD Switching

[Marshman220]

Hello,

So I got this new gaming PC better than my old one, but the new PC has Linux or Ubuntu installed on the HDD. Can I switch my old PC HDD which has windows 7 to the new PC as the primary hard drive so I don't have to deal with Ubuntu?

 

[corroded]

If it was a custom build on the first system, try it, you might get lucky, I did.

 

[theunliked]

You will have to reinstall windows. Microsoft has a system so that you can't simply copy windows over to a new pc.

 

[glitchmaster0001]

you would have to reinstall windows just like the guy above said. last i tried this windows didnt even boot because of missing drivers

 

[Marshman220]

You will have to reinstall windows. Microsoft has a system so that you can't simply copy windows over to a new pc.

Okay so all I got to do is get a Windows 7 OS CD and install it on this hdd? I'm going for the 64bit.

 

[glitchmaster0001]

You will have to reinstall windows. Microsoft has a system so that you can't simply copy windows over to a new pc.

Okay so all I got to do is get a Windows 7 OS CD and install it on this hdd? I'm going for the 64bit.

yup then you just gotta activate it after

 

[Marshman220]

You will have to reinstall windows. Microsoft has a system so that you can't simply copy windows over to a new pc.

Okay so all I got to do is get a Windows 7 OS CD and install it on this hdd? I'm going for the 64bit.

yup then you just gotta activate it after

Okay good, because this OS is just complicated and unfriendly to me.

 

[Marshman220]

If it was a custom build on the first system, try it, you might get lucky, I did.

Well my buyer told me it didnt have an OS but he installed Linux on it just in case I didn't have a Windows disk around.

 

[corroded]

OK... What I was commenting on is IF you have a Retail Licensed copy of Win7 on a machine, I have transfered that HDD to a different machine, it booted, I updated the missing hardware drivers, it re-registered and had 0 issues. I was floored that it work. Saved me hours. I did do a complete reinstall later when I switched to an SSD...