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Building a new PC with your original hard drive?

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  • 28-03-2009 7:45am
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    kingaaa
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    I recently done some upgrades and my pc is working well thanks to some great advice on this forum, but Im looking towards the future and was wondering about building a top-spec PC. I was thinking of buying one component at a time as cash is a bit tight at the moment and my main question is this, if after I have all my new components together in one bundle can I install the hard-drive of my present PC with the OS and all my programmes on it and basically just switch it on and have it start up as if I were still using my present PC?


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    darealtulip
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    kingaaa wrote: »
    I recently done some upgrades and my pc is working well thanks to some great advice on this forum, but Im looking towards the future and was wondering about building a top-spec PC. I was thinking of buying one component at a time as cash is a bit tight at the moment and my main question is this, if after I have all my new components together in one bundle can I install the hard-drive of my present PC with the OS and all my programmes on it and basically just switch it on and have it start up as if I were still using my present PC?

    If you have vista it will work. I installed it a few times and it worked fine. Sometimes it needed a few drivers but that was it. When I used a different brand motherboard (old one which was not really vista ready) I had some problems. But When I used the same brand ones (gigabyte) no problems what so ever.


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    kingaaa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭kingaaa


    darealtulip wrote: »
    If you have vista it will work. I installed it a few times and it worked fine. Sometimes it needed a few drivers but that was it. When I used a different brand motherboard (old one which was not really vista ready) I had some problems. But When I used the same brand ones (gigabyte) no problems what so ever.

    I have XP installed, and to be quite honest I'd like to keep it that way.It for the home pc, we have 3 laptops running vista.


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    Anti
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    No with XP you cant do it because of the registery and drivers. Just backup everything you need onto dvd's usb keys or even an external hard drive. You wil need a fresh install of xp for a new pc.


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