What do I do?

[woodman_victory]

so here's the quick version.

I had a laptop and I broke it like the charging port. And so now I have almost enough money for my new build. The drive from my laptop has a OS and is a 500gb - 7,200rpm WD black.

Now my question is could I just love that to the rig I want to build?

It has the ASUS recovery disks installed(as the factory drive took a poo on me) along with my personal stuff. It was run on and intel pentium and would be going in a amd build. So would I be able to just move it over to the new build without any issue? it would save me the expense of the OS and a new drive.

[Askew]

Reuse the drive sure, but a clean OS install is the way.

[Benjio]

You pretty much need to do a fresh installation if you have a totally different system, it will just blue screen from having different drivers/hardware. You may be able to get the current Windows key to work but you'll have to call Microsoft and activate it over the phone.

[LogicalDrm]

You need to backup files from that drive before reusing it if you are going to use it as OS drive. And you propably need new OS. There's slim change that laptop branded OEM key will work with another mobo.

[woodman_victory]

Could I use the product key for the OS from the laptop still? And any ideas on how to clear the drive? Like idk how :3 cause I can't use it on the laptop.