Swapping hard drive from broken to working PC?

marl

marl

marl

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A friends PC won't boot up. He took it to a repair shop who diagnosed a faulty motherboard and told him that given its age it could not be repaired as they couldn't replace the motherboard.

I have an old PC. I don't want to part with it because I have a lot of work related reports on its hard drive. My PC was a home build one, not sure about his, but what do you think the chances are that i could simply remove my hard drive, replace it with his and voila. give him a working PC?
 
It's theoretically possible if the hardware is close enough or Windows already has the necessary drivers.

It'll probably just fail to boot though as the drivers installed on your friends HDD won't match your hardware.

Maybe someone has a way to fix this.
 
Surveyor said:
It's theoretically possible if the hardware is close enough or Windows already has the necessary drivers.

It'll probably just fail to boot though as the drivers installed on your friends HDD won't match your hardware.

Maybe someone has a way to fix this.
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Thanks, hand'nt thought about the drivers!
 
I suppose you can always give it a go.

If his PC has had it I suppose he's got nothing to lose.

You could always:

  • connect the HDD to your PC as a second disk if there's data he needs off it
  • source him a second hand motherboard
  • do a fresh installation of Windows if there's nothing on the HDD he needs or you get the data off first
 
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