can i use my dell recovery disk to change my HP computer hard drive to a DELL computer

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rambo7880

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i am using an HP computer and i have Dell recover disk and im wondering if i can use that on my HP computer to change it over so i can use my hard drive on my new Dell computer.
Im not sure if it will mess anything up if i run the Dell recovery disk on an HP computer to change my hard drive so i will be able to use my hard drive on the Dell computer.
 
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If I understand this right, you have two computers. One is HP, one is Dell. You want to 'use' the hard drive from the HP on the Dell.

Okay, then simply connect the HP drive to the Dell, format the HP drive(ie wipe everything off it) and now you have a blank hard drive to use as you see fit.

If you want to use the recovery disk so the HP drive becomes your new Dell boot drive and not just a blank extra drive, then I think you'll need to connect it to your Dell computer, remove any other hard drive that might be hooked up to the Dell. Now reboot your computer off the recovery disk and follow whatever instructions you get from there.
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Obakasama

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What precisely are you trying to achieve with the hard drive? If you just want extra storage, just install and then reformat (save any important files to an different drive first obviously). You don't need to use a recovery disk for that.

With PC prebuilts, Windows is typically locked to the original motherboard. In the past my recovery disks would have a disclaimer to only use it for the PC I bought. It's possible there is proprietary software and not just the OS. For just the OS you may be better off downloading from Microsoft using media creator.
 
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The Dell recovery disc is likely to have drivers for the Dell MB devices such as sound, chipset, network etc. that may not work with your HP MB. If I understand correctly what your trying to do, I would suggest putting the HDD into the Dell, then use the recovery disc to convert the HDD there. Back up all your data first.
 
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A Dell recovery disc will contain drivers for whatever hardware is in that Dell laptop. By sheer coincidence, the same hardware could exist in the HP.

More to the point, the recovery disc will install OEM Windows, meaning it's tied to the motherboard of the first computer it's installed on. Even if the recovery disc did work, you'd be violating the T&Cs of your Windows license.
 
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If I understand this right, you have two computers. One is HP, one is Dell. You want to 'use' the hard drive from the HP on the Dell.

Okay, then simply connect the HP drive to the Dell, format the HP drive(ie wipe everything off it) and now you have a blank hard drive to use as you see fit.

If you want to use the recovery disk so the HP drive becomes your new Dell boot drive and not just a blank extra drive, then I think you'll need to connect it to your Dell computer, remove any other hard drive that might be hooked up to the Dell. Now reboot your computer off the recovery disk and follow whatever instructions you get from there.
 
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Ok. Here's the question. Are these windows 10 systems? If so, then your best bet is go and download the windows 10 media creation tool, create a bootable USB drive, then boot the HP from it and install Windows 10. If it originally came with windows 10 or had windows 10 installed and activated before, it should activate once you finished the install and connect it to the internet.

The systems I've worked on, a lot of them with windows 10 do pretty well actually downloading the updates they need from Windows update once they've been connected to the internet.
 
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