IS this possible??

[Defyantly]

ok so i hear that having your OS system on a ssd works faster than on a hdd. i have a laptop that just died and i want to take the ssd out of it and remove teh windows xp OS off of it and move the win7 OS i have on my HDD to the ssd. Is this possible? and if so how exactly would it work?

 

[johnb35]

You would need to do a fresh install of the OS as you really don't want to clone an OS to the SSD so that you get the best performance out of it.

 

[Defyantly]

so i would have to buy the OS brand new seeing as I didnt get a disk for my OS

 

[claptonman]

No, you can download the .iso here:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/downl...cial-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/

Be sure to pick your exact one. Burn it to a DVD-R and install windows with your product key on your laptop.

 

[Defyantly]

could i technically upgrade with those .iso files or would it only work for my particular one?

 

[wolfeking]

you can only use the .iso of the version you have a key code to. you could upgrade, but you will need a new code, and thats the price of a new copy of windows.
Really, for 90+% of people, Home premium is all they need, and thats probably what you have.

 

[Defyantly]

since my laptop has windows xp would i still be able to get win 7?

 

[wolfeking]

your first post said you wanted to move 7 from the HDD to the SSD. You can use the right .iso for that, but you will need to use your current keycode from the windows 7 computer.

If you are trying to put 7 on the laptop, you will need a new windows license to do that.