Moving OS's

[arbellason55]

Figured this would be the place to ask so here is what I am trying to do, I have a desktop with everything running fine and a new laptop that came without an hdd and ram at my request. I know it is far from ideal but is it possible to move my os from the desktop to the laptop without transferring anything else. Why do this you ask, because I am cheap. 

[Catbattle]

3 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

Figured this would be the place to ask so here is what I am trying to do, I have a desktop with everything running fine and a new laptop that came without an hdd and ram at my request. I know it is far from ideal but is it possible to move my os from the desktop to the laptop without transferring anything else. Why do this you ask, because I am cheap. 

Well this is a good place to ask. If you know how to get around some basic anti-pirating measures made by Microsoft, your best bet would be to put the OS on an external drive and copy it over. I don't know a lot about that stuff but that is my advice. Take it with an ocean of salt.

[Bradl79]

is the OS tied to the DT or did u install the OS urself, PC like HP, DELL, and etc brands like that will have the OS locked to their PCs, other than that u can use an Imaging software like Macrium Reflect (free) or Acronis True Image and it will just mirror ur OS to another HDD