Booting to different hard drive in new machine

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LLarz

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Hi, I bought my wife a new Dell XPS 8700 with Windows 7. Her old computer motherboard seems to be failing and I want to just take her old hard drive out and boot to it in the new Dell. Both OS are Windows 7. The one stumbling block I know is an issue is that we are going from an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti to a AMD Radeon HD 7570. I have removed all the NVIDIA drivers (Not the chipset) from the hard drive. When I put the older hard drive into the new system, it says that window encountered and error and can not start. It can not repair it either. I did not pursue the restore from an earlier time option. I intended to download the ATI drivers once it booted up. It appears there is something possibly in configuration or hardware recognition I am unaware of that is preventing windows from booting up. Bios does see the HD. I am open to all ideas.
 
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Definitely not. The old computer was and Alien ware Area 51. Dual core processor. The new computer is a Dell build. XPS 8700. I don't know the motherboard numbers. The thing is, I removed the old hard drive from my wife's computer, stuck it in my slightly older XPS Quad core and it booted up fine. With that little experiment, I hoped that the boot would go as smoothly with the new XPS I got her. I am sure there are a number of things I didn't have any ideas about. Do you see a way of accomplishing this or is it a lost cause?
 
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