I would expect that to work, taking a working boot drive from one
machine to a second with entirely different hardware would be a
different story. A clean install means installing all the software
again as well. I can't find half the disks for software I was using 3
years ago.
On 2/23/2016 4:55 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
"Collin B" <coll...@brendemuehl.net> wrote:
Depends on your operating system. Some versions of MS Windows are very
picky, some like Win2K just fall back to defaults and ask for missing
drivers. Some early versions simply hang. Not so familiar with, but
the same holds true for different distributions of, Linux, some are a
relative joy to swap boot drives others are near impossible.
Win7.
Some have said that, unlike XP (OEM), Win7 (OEM) does more than just check
computer brand.
In the past, XP HP installs moved to a Dell would not boot, but would boot
just fine on any other HP.
OEM Win7, it is said, will check other things such as BIOS s/n to determine
if it has been bootlegged.
I have not yet been able to verify that.
I used Dell OEM installation disc for Win 7 to re-install the OS on my
HP laptop. I used the original HP license number and it installed
perfectly. It verified with Microsoft and everything.
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