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Hard drive question

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Hello,
My roommates hp p6610F hard drive broke. I have a hp p6110F. I moved the hard drive from mine into his. I ended up having to reformat the hard drive, but I am getting a configuration issue with it now, and can't go any further than that screen. I called customer service, they said I needed to buy a hard drive the same size as the newer one, and send out for a new windows start up. Is there any way I can use my older hard drive for the newer computer? I've been lied to before from hp's customer service so I decided to ask here first.

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It fits, no problems there. Ran the windows system restore from it though and after going through its motions it said something along the line of configuration error. Sorry should of wrote down the exact wording, but it basically said that, no error numbers, and that it won't operate until it's fixed and to call customer service.
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wanderer11 said:
Right. You can't move a Windows install from one system to another. You will have to reinstall windows on the new system.


Yup, I reinstalled on the newer computer, since I was getting a hardware change error on it. After reinstalling though (from the hard drives partition) I got the above mentioned problem. Do I need to install from cd instead?
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