Win 7 OS transfer

[ibuildpcswsocks]

Alright so I fucked up my hard drive by doing the dumbest thing of all time.

Which is running chkdsk /r in prompt and restarting and wait at stage 4 and cancel it by shutting it down.

I am a fucking mistake by doing that. Yes I know.

I got corrupted files with SMITE. I wonder if I get a new 1TB HDD and put my Windows 7 on a USB and put it on the new

Hard drive it would work. My only question is that will is transfer the corrupted files onto the new HDD?

any help is very appreciated

[ibuildpcswsocks]

Side note I don't have a license do I really need one?

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

If the OS was on the same drive that was corrupted, I would not advise using that OS in case it is corrupted. 

 

2 minutes ago, MrFluffyOwnsU said:

Side note I don't have a license do I really need one?

 

Yes, you need it. When you buy Windows you pay for the license, not the files. You can download the files directly from Microsoft for free, but they're useless without a license. 

[ibuildpcswsocks]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If the OS was on the same drive that was corrupted, I would not advise using that OS in case it is corrupted. 

 

Yes, you need it. When you buy Windows you pay for the license, not the files. You can download the files directly from Microsoft for free, but they're useless without a license. 

Is there a link to the files? I can buy a license key.

[Oshino Shinobu]

18 minutes ago, MrFluffyOwnsU said:

Is there a link to the files? I can buy a license key.

You need a license now to download them. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows7

 

You can also use a Windows 7 or 8.1 key to activate Windows 10 (until the end of July) I believe.

[mikat]

18 minutes ago, MrFluffyOwnsU said:

Is there a link to the files? I can buy a license key.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7