What will happen if I plug my SSD drive into an another motherboard.
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1. The "computer" isn't Win 7 or Win 10...the OS on the drive is.
2. Plugging a drive with an OS on it into a whole different system results in one of 3 outcomes:
1. It works just fine
2. It fails horribly
3. It boots up, but you find lingering issues later.
I've had all 3. And there is no "percentage" you could put on what will happen.
Win 10 is better than previous versions, but absolutely no guarantee.
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Thats's because my power supply screwed up (I wasnt using my computer and it turned off itself and when I try to reboot it the fans are working only for a half-second and then it turns off. Although, the lights on my GPU are still working) and I had to change my PC anyway so I just want to put the SSD in an another computer to keep/backup my data
aquielisunari
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If you wipe the drive first you can perform a clean install without the aforementioned possibilities. That is assuming you have a copy of 10 or 7 that isn't from a PC supplier such as HP. The OS license belongs to the company. Individuals do buy Windows 10 and do change computers sometimes bringing an old drive(s) with them. They can perform a clean install or play the lottery by just installing the drive. Things get more interesting when there are multiple drives.
aquielisunari
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- Mar 31, 2011
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If you wipe the drive first you can perform a clean install without the aforementioned possibilities. That is assuming you have a copy of 10 or 7 that isn't from a PC supplier such as HP. The OS license belongs to the company. Individuals do buy Windows 10 and do change computers sometimes bringing an old drive(s) with them. They can perform a clean install or play the lottery by just installing the drive. Things get more interesting when there are multiple drives.
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The "OS drive" is whatever drive the operating system lives on.
You have 2 systems...one with Win 10 and one with Win 7.
You wish to take the Win 10 drive, and connect it tot he Win 7 system.
You hope to recover some files from this?
Done correctly, no problem.
Verify the boot order in the BIOS. You do NOT want the system to try to boot up the Win 10 drive.
(with the power OFF) Connect the drive with Win 10 on it to another SATA port, and boot up.
It should start the Win 7, just like always.
The other drive will simply be another drive letter.
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MERGED QUESTION
Question from zpirit : "What would happen if I plug my SSD into an another computer instead of a HDD"
Hello, I would like to like to know what would happen if I plug my SSD (it has data in it) into an another computer instead of a HDD (On sata_0). (Both of the motherboards have windows 10 installed) and I would like to have my SSD's data as a first disk for the computer
Question from zpirit : "What would happen if I plug my SSD into an another computer instead of a HDD"
Hello, I would like to like to know what would happen if I plug my SSD (it has data in it) into an another computer instead of a HDD (On sata_0). (Both of the motherboards have windows 10 installed) and I would like to have my SSD's data as a first disk for the computer
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