I have a laptop that ran a windows 8os. One day, the internal hard drive corrupted so I bought a used internal drive which runs a Windows 7 Ultimate in it. When I inserted the internal drive that I bought, my laptop start up then shows a 'start up repair' window then after sometimes, shut down. What will I do?
Inserted a windows 7 ultimate to a windows 8 based laptop
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Boogieman_WD
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- Jul 31, 2014
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Hey there, Judeo_23.
A used drive with an OS on it? The OS is kind of useless, since it was installed on a different computer, which means that it was configured for different hardware and motherboard. It's rarely possible to boot to Windows by switching drives from different computers. I guess the best case scenario for you would be to make a clean installation of Windows. If you have the product key for the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) version of Windows your laptop came with, you should be able to make a bootable flash drive with the same version of Windows and install it on that HDD. Here's how to do that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-create-installation-media.
Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD
A used drive with an OS on it? The OS is kind of useless, since it was installed on a different computer, which means that it was configured for different hardware and motherboard. It's rarely possible to boot to Windows by switching drives from different computers. I guess the best case scenario for you would be to make a clean installation of Windows. If you have the product key for the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) version of Windows your laptop came with, you should be able to make a bootable flash drive with the same version of Windows and install it on that HDD. Here's how to do that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-create-installation-media.
Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD
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