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I have an working HP Pavillion with a broken case. I bought another HP laptop but drowned it with coffee. I want to swap the new SSD (8.1) with the older SSD (7) but the new one won't boot up. If I try holding the Windows key+b and hitting the power button (from an HP video), could the SSD be damaged?
 
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Hey there, smiley_1919.

Even if the SSD is undamaged by the coffee spill, it's normal for it not to be able to boot to Windows with your old laptop. Those Operating Systems (the Win 7 and Win 8.1 you are referring to) are OEM (original equipment manufacturer), which means that these installation of Windows will only work with the hardware of the laptop they came with.
If the SSD is healthy you should perform a fresh install of Windows on you old laptop if you want to use it with it.

You could check if the SSD is damaged by connecting it to a different computer and running an SSD diagnostic test to see if anything alarming pops-up.

Hope that helps.
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Hey there, smiley_1919.

Even if the SSD is undamaged by the coffee spill, it's normal for it not to be able to boot to Windows with your old laptop. Those Operating Systems (the Win 7 and Win 8.1 you are referring to) are OEM (original equipment manufacturer), which means that these installation of Windows will only work with the hardware of the laptop they came with.
If the SSD is healthy you should perform a fresh install of Windows on you old laptop if you want to use it with it.

You could check if the SSD is damaged by connecting it to a different computer and running an SSD diagnostic test to see if anything alarming pops-up.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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Thanks for answering, Boogieman_WD. I installed it in the secondary drive and it is working fine. But, the primary drive is still full. The secondary has 600 gigs available. Is there a way to make it the primary drive? I tried swapping them and it won't load.
 
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So both drives work? That's good news. Unfortunately, as I already mentioned, you won't be able to boot to Windows by using a drive with Windows from another computer. If you want to boot to Windows with that drive perhaps you should migrate/clone the drive you can boot to Windows with over to this drive you can't boot to Windows with. However, note that you should backup your information before you do that as the clone will erase everything on the destination drive.
The other option if you want to be able to boot to Windows by using the drive, which you can't use for booting right now, is to make a fresh install of Windows on it.

I hope that I've been able to answer your question. But please don't hesitate to ask if there's something unclear, or if I haven't understood your question.
 
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