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englewood10

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Hello all,

I have bought a new PC but I want to use my old hard drive in the new PC, so I don't have to reinstall all of my programs again.

Is this possible, or do I need a fresh build?

The old hard drive has a windows 10 pro operating system.

Cheers
 
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King Dranzer

King Dranzer

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If you think the data and programs on old drive are very important. First of all I would like you to check the CPU architecture you are swapping SSDH from. If it is same you will have better possibility of running it without any problems. If it is of same architecture then swap the SSDH and install the new drivers you got with the Mobo on it. If not same architecture then still it will work but some applications may not accept it and will not work but basic ones will do.
Presently I am using this scrappy HP laptop with Intel Pentium CPUB980(32-bit) processor and 2GB RAM, one day its HDD stopped working. I had Lenovo 64-bit Laptop I was using it with Windows 10 Pro(64-bit) then Lenovo's screen stopped working so I simply swapped HP HDD with Lenovo's HDD and installed drivers it is working well without any problem some rare apps don't work.
 
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englewood10

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Hi,

Well yes, as it will take me a week to get them all back on :-(.

I'm going from a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.40Ghz Pro with a Foxconn G31MX Series

To a I7 processor with a mobo Asus moboH81m-K

 
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