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Swapping hard drive from one laptop to another...
Posted on 2/5/15 at 10:10 am
Posted on 2/5/15 at 10:10 am
My MIL gave me a laptop that's bigger, better and newer than my current one. Only thing is the hard drive crapped out on hers. Can I just take the hard drive out of my Gateway, put it in the Asus she gave me and roll?
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Posted on 2/5/15 at 11:12 am to cdaniel76
You'll have an issue with the drivers. Since both of the laptops aren't the same. You'll have to download all the drivers for the new laptop. To save time, it'll be easier to buy a new HDD for the new laptop and install it fresh. Check out this website to compare prices on HDD.
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This post was edited on 2/5/15 at 11:14 am
Posted on 2/5/15 at 12:29 pm to cdaniel76
You'll likely get the BSOD with the different hardware. Even moving a hard drive directly to a new PC with same hardware isn't 100% successful.
Posted on 2/5/15 at 12:53 pm to cdaniel76
You can generally get around hardware driver conflicts by uninstalling old drivers and replacing with the correct ones without too many issues, especially in Windows 7 and above (though it's still best practice to do a clean install). But, the biggest issue you're going to face, with no way around it, is the OEM license. Your Gateway came with an OEM version of Windows tied to that vendor and most likely the bios on the Gateway's motherboard, and it's not gonna activate on the Asus.
This post was edited on 2/5/15 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 2/5/15 at 12:57 pm to therabidsmurf
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You'll likely get the BSOD with the different hardware. Even moving a hard drive directly to a new PC with same hardware isn't 100% successful.
Ah, another reason I love Linux. In general, you can move a hard drive into any computer of the same cpu architecture and it will boot right up.
Posted on 2/5/15 at 1:29 pm to therabidsmurf
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You'll likely get the BSOD with the different hardware. Even moving a hard drive directly to a new PC with same hardware isn't 100% successful.
This is true.
You will need to wipe your hard drive and reinstall Windows to get it to work
Posted on 2/5/15 at 1:58 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Wouldn't he be able to change the product key to the one that came with the Asus, assuming they're the same version of Windows?
Posted on 2/5/15 at 4:12 pm to FlipNDipN
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To save time, it'll be easier to buy a new HDD for the new laptop and install it fresh
That's pretty much what I was thinking I'd need to do. We just wondering if there was anything I could do with the HDD out of my older laptop.
What would be the easiest way to transfer all my files off my old laptop HDD to the new HDD once it's installed?
Obviously, I'd need to install a new OS with the new HDD, right?
What's the best Windows today? 8.1? I saw that 10 is coming soon?
Posted on 2/5/15 at 4:44 pm to cdaniel76
If you've considered purchasing an external hard drive for your media and documents now would be the ideal time. Move your stuff once to the external and then just access it from there without copying it back to the new HDD.
Posted on 2/5/15 at 7:00 pm to junkfunky
Doh! Got a 500gb one sitting in the desk drawer right under the laptop!
Posted on 2/6/15 at 12:16 pm to cdaniel76
I would use win7 ent. addition. I know some people don't like Windows 8. If you have an ext. hdd than you can copy the files over to it.
The OS issues is mostly what you like to use. Myself I like Windows 7. I've tried Windows 10 and it's kinda like 7 and 8 mixed together. For now, I'm staying on Windows 7 for as long as they support it.
Never did like Windows ME or Windows Vista both of those are big POS OS!
The OS issues is mostly what you like to use. Myself I like Windows 7. I've tried Windows 10 and it's kinda like 7 and 8 mixed together. For now, I'm staying on Windows 7 for as long as they support it.
Never did like Windows ME or Windows Vista both of those are big POS OS!
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