Timeline for Windows 7 Home Premium internal hard drive swap
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| May 9, 2012 at 2:17 | history | edited | sawdust | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
"switch" made me think of "selector"; "swap" is less ambiguous.
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| May 9, 2012 at 1:02 | answer | added | Bon Gart | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 9, 2012 at 0:59 | comment | added | sawdust | Try deleting any partitions. Sometimes I resort to zeroing out the first couple of cylinders using a Seagate or WD utility. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 0:58 | comment | added | Bon Gart | WHERE did you reinstall the OS? With the hard drive in the new computer for the installation? Or did you just repeat the steps you performed the first time? What he was saying, is that without following some specific steps, you cannot just install Windows 7 on a hard drive on one computer, and then just swap the drive into another computer and expect it to work. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 0:41 | comment | added | Alex Helfery | Well I didn't copy it, but I think I understand what you're saying. Edit: So I tried reinstalling the OS again but it's just stuck going to Startup Repair. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 0:23 | comment | added | sawdust | Seems like the clean, simple solution is to just redo the Win install with the proper motherboard and HDD. "Installing Windows" does not mean that you're just coping stuff from the DVD to the hard drive. The installation is also determining & saving the system configuration. If you have a System Builder/OEM version of Win7, then hopefully you didn't activate your copy yet. | |
| May 8, 2012 at 23:54 | history | asked | Alex Helfery | CC BY-SA 3.0 |