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Boot from Hard-drive on a different laptop

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  • 30-03-2015 10:08pm
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    jdunne08
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭


    So my laptop died ( RIP ) and I have the Hard drive from her here. I've bought a new laptop with Win 8 and I'm wondering if I change the booting order to boot from the drive of the dead laptop will that boot up as normal, in win 7 showing all my files, desktop etc... as it would have in the old laptop?


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,164 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    The odd time you'd get lucky and that'd work but most of the time no, it wont.

    You need to re-install windows on any drive IN the system its to boot, so drivers and system configurations are set correctly.


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    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    If you want to try it to get your files off. Maybe. But it will never work properly. Windows installs itself to match the hardware. Move that disk to another PC and it be very unreliable.


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    PropJoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    You would probably be able to boot into it, but you're going to be left with alot of things not working due to lack of drivers. Its worth a try, but unlikely to work very smoothly.


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    jdunne08
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭jdunne08


    Thanks for the comments lads, I wont even try it to save me the hassle if its gonna be unstable or anything. It wasnt a necessity anyway so Ill just plug it in as an external.


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    realdanbreen
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    Kind of a different problem folks. Laptop screen keeps flasing when I turn it on,had been working fine all along. It's a hp .


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    realdanbreen
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    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Kind of a different problem folks. Laptop screen keeps flasing when I turn it on,had been working fine all along. It's a hp .

    Might there be keys eg ctl,alt,de, whatever that might fix it?


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    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    ?


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    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Kind of a different problem folks. Laptop screen keeps flasing when I turn it on,had been working fine all along. It's a hp .


    help:confused:


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,164 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Loose cable to the inverter or failing board display board.


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    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Does it do it on the bios screen. If it does its a hardware fault and you should return it. If only in Windows then update the video driver.


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