Transfer hard drive

[bhorn]

I bought a Hewlett Packard G71-340US laptop without a hard drive and want to install a hard drive with Vista operating system from another damaged Hewlett Packard G60-243CLhp computer. Will it boot up and access the hard drive. The G71 has a COA attached for Windows 7.

 

[smorizio]

DePending on the mb chipset and ram size you may have to boot into safe mode and remove all the older drivers and then reboot to get into windows.
As a tech your better off wipping the old drive and picking up a restore cd fron eBay or hp for the newer laptop.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Two completely different platforms, Core 2 and AMD, not gonna work, no how, no way. Besides, the OEM license prohibits such a swap.

 

[JDFan]

Probably will not work due to differences in the 2 systems -- One option would be to download an OEM win7 iso ( Official MS download source links can be found HERE ( http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/ ) and format the hdd and install win7 (using the key on the laptop - since the OEM license is tied to that MOBO and will reactivate ) -- as mentioned if you want to switch back to vista it will require a new license since the old OEM license for VISTA is tied to the MOBO of the other laptop not the HDD.