Swapping Hard drives between notebooks

[Hukko]

I have a notebook with failed hdd and I got an idea if I can put a different hdd from my old notebook into the broken one. The old working hdd has win 7 32 bit installed and the failed had win 10, I just want to ask if it will boot into windows without problems because I dont want to break anything.

[emosun]

18 minutes ago, Hukko said:

I just want to ask if it will boot into windows without problems

nope. windows 7 doesn't jump motherboards the same way windows 10 does , you have to reinstall windows on the drive once you install the drive

[TylerD321]

38 minutes ago, emosun said:

nope. windows 7 doesn't jump motherboards the same way windows 10 does , you have to reinstall windows on the drive once you install the drive

This is true. If the HDD is from an older notebook I would recommend getting a new SSD to throw in and install windows on. You wouldn't want to have to worry about the drive dying again in the near future.

 

Installing windows is super easy. You just download the installation media onto the flashdrive from the windows website. The instructions are all all there, for both the creation of the media and the installation of windows. Most likely if you had windows on the pc before and log into windows using the same outlook account it will pull your old windows key if you do not have access to it. You will have to do this regardless of whether or not you get a new HDD/SSD.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[Hukko]

On 10/24/2022 at 7:06 PM, TylerD321 said:

This is true. If the HDD is from an older notebook I would recommend getting a new SSD to throw in and install windows on. You wouldn't want to have to worry about the drive dying again in the near future.

 

Installing windows is super easy. You just download the installation media onto the flashdrive from the windows website. The instructions are all all there, for both the creation of the media and the installation of windows. Most likely if you had windows on the pc before and log into windows using the same outlook account it will pull your old windows key if you do not have access to it. You will have to do this regardless of whether or not you get a new HDD/SSD.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

It was our family pc and dad ubgraded the Win 7 to win 10 and I dont think they made any microsoft account or dont have acces to it anymore, I am not 100% sure that the hdd failed but I assume it did because the pc is making loud noices and wont boot, it stays in bios. The hdd in the old notebook isnt that old, it was changed about 4 years ogo. Can i somehow confirm that the hdd is dead for sure?