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IN my toshiba laptop, i have a 500GB Hard drive, and i want to move it to my desktop, so if i directly moved it over, would there be any driver/compatibility issues? The desktop and laptop are both SATA
 
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You can sysprep your HDD before plugging it to a new PC to avoid boot BSODs. To do this, go to C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe, check 'generalize', select 'OOBE' on drop down menu, and 'Shut down'.

When your new PC boots off of your old HDD, you'll get the 'out of box experience' screen, asking you to create new user account. Just call it anything and after that's done, you can log off and switch to your main user account.

Once you're logged in with your main account, you can safely proceed with deleting the newly made account in Control Panel > User Accounts applet

To clarify what sysprep does, it basicly gets rid of all platform specific data such as drivers and configuration files.

Then you will need to install the new MB...
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Depends if you are adding it as your primary boot drive, or just as a secondary data drive. If primary, yeah driver issues will likely happen, if secondary then no driver issues will be there, though after windows detects the secondary drive, you may be asked to reboot computer
 
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Any examples? Will it be to detrimental that I can't have it as a main hat drive?
 
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Since the desktop and laptop likely have different SATA controllers, Audio, Ethernet, Wifi, etc. Windows may not boot completely...what you would see is windows initially trying to startup, then system will either reboot or give a BSOD (Blue Screen) because the drivers are not similar enough to allow Windows to boot to GUI (Desktop)
 
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You can sysprep your HDD before plugging it to a new PC to avoid boot BSODs. To do this, go to C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe, check 'generalize', select 'OOBE' on drop down menu, and 'Shut down'.

When your new PC boots off of your old HDD, you'll get the 'out of box experience' screen, asking you to create new user account. Just call it anything and after that's done, you can log off and switch to your main user account.

Once you're logged in with your main account, you can safely proceed with deleting the newly made account in Control Panel > User Accounts applet

To clarify what sysprep does, it basicly gets rid of all platform specific data such as drivers and configuration files.

Then you will need to install the new MB drivers. And it is probably best to set up the BIOS, memory and etc before booting to windows for the first time.
 
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So after doing sysprep:
Boot with the new MOBO, set everything in BIOs up;
then instal the new harddrive and boot? any drivers or anything i needa install?

 
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