how do i swap my current HDD with OS into new machine ?

truewraith · 3 Nov 2021 at 22:33

i already have windows on my hdd but when i put my drive in another machine it wouldnt boot! but still boots fine in old machine!

just wondered if anyone knew what i was missing or have to do please ?

Jay85 · 4 Nov 2021 at 09:53

truewraith said:
i already have windows on my hdd but when i put my drive in another machine it wouldnt boot! but still boots fine in old machine!

just wondered if anyone knew what i was missing or have to do please ?

The bios in your other machine is probably configured differently, for instance it's unlikely to boot if you have the drive configured to boot in CSM but your new machine is configured for UEFI. You will need to configure your new machine to boot from whatever setting you have in your old machine to recognise the boot drive.

bimbleuk · 4 Nov 2021 at 10:07

As above but have a look if there is an option to allow legacy booting for starters.

Snapshot · 4 Nov 2021 at 14:18

But note that, depending on the version of Windows, it still may not boot if the new motherboard hardware is very different from the old one. You will probably also have an 'interesting' time sorting out the licencing after a change of motherboard.

Tart · 4 Nov 2021 at 17:23

A bit more info on where in the boot process the failure is would help in troubleshooting. Do you get the bios screen no boot disk message? Does windows start to load and then give an error?