I'm new to the forum although I have been reading it for quite a while, so, hi to everyone!
I will first explain why I'm asking this, I'm currently installing windows 8.1 through a virtual machine into a secondary HDD I've connected (See rawdisk and this for more info on how to do that). I've done it a couple of times, so no problems with that.
The reason for this is so I can still be using my pc while installing windows (or other OS) into a secondary HDD or partition.
But while I usually do this for my own PC, this is for my brother's PC. That's why I want to know if when I'm to give him this HDD with pre-installed windows 8.1 he will have problems with the OS being configured for another hardware (being it 64bit compatible, taking into account Windows 8.1 license problems when changing hardware and not installing any driver apart from running windows update).
From my own experience, because virtualbox emulates hardware it wont be any different than what I usually do. But I'm not so sure about the processor, because that's not emulated in virtualbox.
In short: Can a HDD with windows 8.1 freshly installed be transferred to a new pc without any incompatibilities or optimization problems( setting aside 64 bit incompatibilities)? Is the kernel in anyway optimized to the processor it was installed with? (Like in linux where you can do so).
PD: I'm not a native english speaker, if you see any error please highlight it so I can fix it! Thank you
I will first explain why I'm asking this, I'm currently installing windows 8.1 through a virtual machine into a secondary HDD I've connected (See rawdisk and this for more info on how to do that). I've done it a couple of times, so no problems with that.
The reason for this is so I can still be using my pc while installing windows (or other OS) into a secondary HDD or partition.
But while I usually do this for my own PC, this is for my brother's PC. That's why I want to know if when I'm to give him this HDD with pre-installed windows 8.1 he will have problems with the OS being configured for another hardware (being it 64bit compatible, taking into account Windows 8.1 license problems when changing hardware and not installing any driver apart from running windows update).
From my own experience, because virtualbox emulates hardware it wont be any different than what I usually do. But I'm not so sure about the processor, because that's not emulated in virtualbox.
In short: Can a HDD with windows 8.1 freshly installed be transferred to a new pc without any incompatibilities or optimization problems( setting aside 64 bit incompatibilities)? Is the kernel in anyway optimized to the processor it was installed with? (Like in linux where you can do so).
PD: I'm not a native english speaker, if you see any error please highlight it so I can fix it! Thank you
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