Highly unlikely that will work.Is it possible to essentially do a boot drive transplant?
say I were to take the boot drive with windows 10 physically out of my custom Dell workstation laptop and put it into a Dell desktop would it boot?
This OS install happens while the drive, or any drive, is in the desktop.So then I was thinking I should just transfer all the files on to a backup disc. Format the disc. Do a fresh install of windows 10 and them put all the files back on. And install the drivers for the desktop. That should work?
So then I was thinking I should just transfer all the files on to a backup disc. Format the disc. Do a fresh install of windows 10 and them put all the files back on. And install the drivers for the desktop. That should work?
No. Actually, you want to let Windows give you whatever it wants, and THEN go to the motherboard product page, download the most recent drivers for chipset, network adapters and sound, and install them. Then go to the manufacturer page for your graphics card, AMD or Nvidia, and download the latest compatible driver for your card model, and install that. Then, you will be satisfied. Hoping for the universal generic drivers usually offered by Microsoft to give you full feature operation, can work in some cases, but won't in others. And a lot of problems are self created by relying on MS for drivers except when you have no other choice.Let Windows give you whatever drivers it wants. Then evaluate whether or not you are satisfied with those drivers.