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use hard drive running win 8 in different computer

Jan 18, 2014 8:21AM PST

Recently lost my mobo due to a power surge no drives detected dead screen. i have a SATA to usb and can see my drive, and data is in tact but when i try to boot in the new computer (system recognizes drive)
i get a( to quick to read message) something about the pc i think the issue is the computer im trying to put this drive in is about 3 years younger than the computer the drive was running in. when i use the win 8 recovery on a flash it loops. while running the flash quick message about pc(it does read from the flash but then fails) i was able to use the flash to load 8 on a formatted drive(in this computer) worked fine. and will use as a last resort but would really like to, of course keep all my drivers and settings and software settings etc any ideas???

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Well discussed.
Jan 18, 2014 8:27AM PST

Microsoft doesn't support moving a drive from PC to PC well. And even more so if you move it to some USB case.

Keep in mind Microsoft did that in 1995 and so we might be repeating an old story.
Bob

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fresh start it is
Jan 18, 2014 9:23AM PST

thank you, thought it would be something like this gotta ask

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Unless you move the drive to an identical config
Jan 18, 2014 8:27AM PST

it's not going to work because of driver incompatibilities. Also if you have an OEM version of Windows, it will recognize that it's in a different system and disable itself. Sorry.

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fresh start it is
Jan 18, 2014 9:21AM PST

thanks for the help
i felt this where it was heading!!

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Try Linux on it
Jan 18, 2014 6:54PM PST