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What motherboard was a hard drive in?

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Hi, so I have a few hard drives, all installed with Windows 7, I need to find out what motherboard was previously with which hard drive. (E.g. Hard drive A was in a system with B150M-D3H motherboard, hard drive B was in a system with H61M-S2P motherboard.) The only way I can think of is somehow accessing the drivers installed because if you have a different motherboard or a CPU, on the bottom right tray it will install new drivers for the new hardware.

 

Can someone advise me on how to figure this out, it would be great if I also could find out the CPU model that was in the system too.

 

Thanks.

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I would suggest to try and boot the drive on another pc and see what chipset drivers it has installed. If it does not boot just use a Ubuntu live cd or something and backup your data onto an external drive and reinstall Windows.

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Hi

 

Not sure if this would work, I am not and expert

 

1- If you connect the drive, as a 2 HD. you can use Device Manager to explore the second drive

2- Using Device Manager you can then, see what drivers, and CPU are on the drive windows install in that particular HD.

3- You would need to know what CPU are on what MB to merge then correctly.

 

I am not sure this will work. 

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1 hour ago, potatosalad33 said:

I would suggest to try and boot the drive on another pc and see what chipset drivers it has installed. If it does not boot just use a Ubuntu live cd or something and backup your data onto an external drive and reinstall Windows.

How do I check what drivers it had installed on another PC?

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1 hour ago, Zmax said:

Hi

 

Not sure if this would work, I am not and expert

 

1- If you connect the drive, as a 2 HD. you can use Device Manager to explore the second drive

2- Using Device Manager you can then, see what drivers, and CPU are on the drive windows install in that particular HD.

3- You would need to know what CPU are on what MB to merge then correctly.

 

I am not sure this will work. 

Not sure how to use Device Manager to explore the second drive, Device Manager only displays drivers of the OSdisk I'm booted from

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Ok sorry though it could work, since the second drive as windows install also

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