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griff-1984

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Hi everyone,

I currently have a desktop with windows vista and a completely seperate hard drive with windows 7. I want to transfer the windows 7 data to the vista hard drive so as i have windows 7 as the OS on the desktop. I cant just swap hard drives as the connections are not the same for the motherboard if that makes sense.

Any help would be great

kind regards
 
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If the windows 7 wasn't installed while currently in the computer its residing in then it won't work.
 
Unfortunately as John says you can't just swap the files, you would have to do a clean install on the drive you want to have you primary os on.
 
Ok thanks for ya help. Can i boot from the HDD to run the OS on it. I can connect the HDD to the computer via usb with a wire i have????
 
No, you can't run an OS from a drive that was originally installed on a different machine. All the hardware and drivers will be different and all you will get are blue screens or system restarts.
 
johnb35 said:
No, you can't run an OS from a drive that was originally installed on a different machine. All the hardware and drivers will be different and all you will get are blue screens or system restarts.
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Ah ok i understand different motherboard, different graphics cards etc etc . Well it was worth the ask lol. Thanks again for your kind advice.

regards

mark
 
That's the problem with Windows.

You can boot Linux from a USB stick without worrying about drivers or licenses. Windows always was stupid that way, because of their *&^% profit motive.
 
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