Swaping hard drives

[samander95]

i currently have a dell optiplex 745 with windows xp, and a broken computer that had windows 7 on it. How could i put windows 7 on my computer(optiplex 745)?

 

[tomatthe]

i currently have a dell optiplex 745 with windows xp, and a broken computer that had windows 7 on it. How could i put windows 7 on my computer(optiplex 745)?

As long as you have the install disk and the key you can call microsoft and they will release the key from the broke machine, and you could install it on the machine with xp.

If the machine came with Win 7 already installed, I'm not certain you can move those version of Win 7.

 

[samander95]

it was a preinstalled windows 7, can i just swap the harddrives i really dont give a *** about losing information on this computer

 

[rgd1101]

if it is an OEM version, you can't just swap it, need to buy another copy of windows 7.

 

[samander95]

Best answer selected by samander95.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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