Lord Snooty
New Member
Hi,
I bought a used computer from an estate sale this morning and seemed like a nice deal, I had first dibs on it as I was first in the line. Anyway, it powered up ok and I got it home and it has no hard drive so I cant boot it up. My question is can I simply buy a new hard drive and use a flash drive with windows 7 pro installer to get it running? There is no OS disc but does have the Windows 7 authorization sticker on the case. Here are the specs on this machine, I got it for $140... Thanks
iBuyPower Level 10 custom CPU case
1200 Watt -- Thermaltake Toughpower W0156RU Power Supply
Quad SLI Ready, ATI Radeon HD 5870 - 1GB - CrossFire Mode (Dual Cards),
ASUS P6X58D Premium -- Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire and SLI Supported w/8-ch HD Audio, Triple-Channel DDR3, 2 Gb Lan, 3 PCI-E MB,
12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1600 Triple Memory Module - Corsair,
Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (x58)
Intel® Core™ i7 975 Processor Extreme Edition (4x 3.33GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
I bought a used computer from an estate sale this morning and seemed like a nice deal, I had first dibs on it as I was first in the line. Anyway, it powered up ok and I got it home and it has no hard drive so I cant boot it up. My question is can I simply buy a new hard drive and use a flash drive with windows 7 pro installer to get it running? There is no OS disc but does have the Windows 7 authorization sticker on the case. Here are the specs on this machine, I got it for $140... Thanks
iBuyPower Level 10 custom CPU case
1200 Watt -- Thermaltake Toughpower W0156RU Power Supply
Quad SLI Ready, ATI Radeon HD 5870 - 1GB - CrossFire Mode (Dual Cards),
ASUS P6X58D Premium -- Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire and SLI Supported w/8-ch HD Audio, Triple-Channel DDR3, 2 Gb Lan, 3 PCI-E MB,
12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1600 Triple Memory Module - Corsair,
Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (x58)
Intel® Core™ i7 975 Processor Extreme Edition (4x 3.33GHz/8MB L3 Cache)