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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
You won't be able to just slap in the old drive with the OS and expect it to boot up. You'll have to install windows again but if you drop your existing drives into a computer that is already running windows you MAY be able to use the programs installed on it without reinstalling.
Either way your data will be safe though, don't sweat that.
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Maybe I'm missing something - he should be able to boot up just fine. He'll need to reset the BIOS on the new box, then install the correct motherboard drivers (and other hardware of course), but it should boot, as long as he adds the drive with the active boot partition in the correct location on the bus.