Please help hard drive won't boot on 1 computer

[Codfunnyhill]

Hi guys basically I upgraded from my old pc to this new one, my brother wanted me to build him a computer so I put something together from my old pc but he just needed to get a hard drive and power supply. The problem is when I got the new hard drive I found out I needed windows so I just cloned my hard drive to the new one. But when I plug it in the computer just says f1 to boot.

When I click f1 it just gives me and error saying the boot disk is not valid or something. So I went and plugged in the hard drive to my new computer and it worked fine just like the other old hard drive. So I know the hard drive works. What I tried was to get into the bios and change the computer to boot from the hard drive but it doesnt even know its there. Also I have needed to take out the battery on the motherboard every time to get to the bios because it only says f1 to boot. I am positive the cables are connected correctly and the power is connected as well.

I am very confused to why it won't boot into the hard drive any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry for my bad english.

 

[R_1]

"The problem is when I got the new hard drive I found out I needed windows so I just cloned my hard drive to the new one. But when I plug it in the computer just says f1 to boot."

The problem is cloning your drive, the cloned drive will not work (boot) on any other machine but yours. Each windows install is unique (drivers and settings are hardware dependent). you need another windows license key to install windows on his machine.

You can install linux until you can get him a copy of windows. Linux mint is very easy if he knows how to use windows he can use mint.