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Moving Win7 OEM Hard drive to identical computer
Hi
Hope I can get some help with this.
I have an ASUS U50A that is completely dead. Asus wants 350 bucks to replace the motherboard, battery etc...
I have purchased an identical working machine from Ebay. for 140$
My plan is to take the hard drive from the old dead machine and put it in the new (used) identical machine I purchased on Ebay. I have a lot of files on the old machine that are not backed up.
Both hard drives have the original OEM OS installs on them.
My questions are
Will MS/Win7 let me do this?
Will it boot?
If the motherboard is fried what are the chances the old hard drive is fried?
Anything I should do before I switch the hard drives?
Any thoughts are appreciated, thanks