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Old 11-28-2010, 12:47 PM  
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Originally Posted by u-Bob View Post
old drive with OS in a new pc = works fine... Done it dozens of times. The windows install will detect the different hardware (other grafix card and things like that) and you may need to install some drivers afterwards to get better performance, but it will work.
That doesn't always work, sometimes windows won't boot because of old hard drive controller drivers installed. The only way to make sure it will boot is to replace a few drivers with generic ones first but it's too late for the OP to do that.
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