Replace Dell Harddrive with Asus Harddrive

[latenightexcurs]

The hard drive originally in my laptop has died.
I am now taking the original hard drive in an Asus laptop to replace the Dell hard drive.
The Asus hard drive has windows on it just like the dell hard drive. I am unable to boot and keep getting an error message. See below.

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I have tried the following:
1) Using a usb to connect and then f12 to load from usb drive
2) Attaching the asus hard drive directly into the laptop thereby replacing the old dell hard drive and f12 booting from hard drive.

I may be missing something regarding the bios matching up? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[drtweak]

You have to reinstall windows. You can just swap the drives. Different hardware and more than likely won't boot. The hard drive itself will work but not the OS.

What version of windows did you have on there before?

 

[latenightexcurs]

The Dell laptop had windows 7. It's hard drive is dying (clicking and freezes after short-term use) thus I have to replace it.
The asus laptop had windows 7 as well. Would I still need to reinstall given similar OS?

Alternatively, I would like to copy the dell hard drive partition onto the asus hard drive, but it wouldn't last long enough before the laptop freezes and I'll have to reboot, so this won't be an option. I also tried to pull out the Dell hard drive and attach it to a usb cord hooking it up on a new computer as a hard drive but it won't show up.

 

[drtweak]

yes you have to reinstall it regardless unless the hard drive came form a similar Dell. Windows will not activate, different hardware, etc. Here is the Dell OEM Install ISO that will auto activate when you install it.

http://ttz123.com/files/Windows/Dell%20OEM%20Install%20Disk/Windows%207%2064%20Bit/

download all the parts, extract them, and then either burn them to a DVD (Requires a Dual Layer DVD (DVD-DL)) or use Rufus to put it on a thumb drive. Just make sure you boot off of it on a USB 2.0 port as it will boot off a 3.0 but since windows 7 has no USB 3.0 support it will load the setup enviroment but can't see the USB drive after that.

Windows will automatically activate and you can install either Home Premium or Pro and it will auto activate. DO NOT INSTALL ULTIMATE. it will not activate.

 

[latenightexcurs]

Thank you sir. I received your solution. I am caught up with other work at the moment and will give it a go hopefully over the weekend. Will follow up if I have further questions.