Clone a Hard Drive

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Originally Posted by camiller

Is there a reason you think this will work? When the OS was installed on the old computer it had to detect and install drivers for the motherboard chipset and on board peripherals. (If you have ever built a computer from parts the motherboard usually comes with a driver disk) If you simply clone that old drive to the drive in the new PC it is basically not going to work unless the new computer had virtually exactly the same motherboard/chip set/firmware. You will likely still have to reinstall the OS, which means since the registry will be empty you will have to reinstall all your application software as well.

You are much much better off simply installing your apps and transferring your data over.

Unless the new computer IS the same hardware as the old one, in which case never mind.

While you might be able to fight it and get it to work.... Not worth the issues. Much better with a clean install. Why have an old clogged up registry, drivers that will not match up, and a slow old load on a new system. Well worth the effort to load fresh. I have done a few of you HD swaps for people and even at $30 an hour I refuse to do any more, not worth the $$ for the headaches it brings.