Moving a hard drive with Vista to laptop that originally shipped with windows 8

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FALC0N

FALC0N

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A few days ago, I was working on a Del Inspiron. I don't remember the model, but it was an Ivy Bridge era intel cpu.

The hard drive was failing, and I advised the owner, who asked if they could reuse a drive from an older, non-functional, laptop. The older laptop was a 2007 Toshiba with an AMD Turion X2. I pulled the older drive and placed it in the Dell.

I powered the system up, to test the drive, fully expecting Vists to crash in the new hardware. To my shock, it booted cleanly and continues to function.

I have never seen hardware this different support a clean boot before. Has anyone seen anything like this before?
 
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Andrei N

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Windows XP had an awesome way of remaking drivers during safe mode. I used to check systems like that. A fully updated SP3 and every time I placed it in a new system I left it in safe mode with networking until all the drivers were up. Performed a restart and it will always work. (Even switching from Intel to AMD builds).
This was back in 2011-2012. Good times, good OS.
 
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FALC0N

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Repair install from the cd was also a great way to move hardware on XP. You didn't have to initiate it from the functioning OS back then.

My jaw just hit the floor when this swap worked. The intent was to wipe the drive. I didn't think it had a prayer of booting, but it did.
 
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