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My computer died and I have another on order. Does it make any sense to take the old hard drive out, running vista, put it in the new tower running windows 7? Kinda have 2 operating systems, maybe use different accounts to log in to the different hd's? I'm thinking this would be easier than transfering all the files. Am I wrong?

The old computer had a power supply issue that fried the mother board.

Thank you and Happy Holidays
Mark
 
If your HD is a SATA drive, then you should be able to just plug it into the new motherboard with no problems, and you'll be able to access the file system on the drive. It'll just show up like an external would, or if you plugged in a flash drive into your computer.

As for plugging it in and being able to dual boot no problems. I don't think it's going to be that easy. You might have to research how to setup a dual boot with an old drive with a OS already installed on it.
 
You could dual-boot with a bit of text editing. But why would you want to boot into vista when you have 7?

If the hard drive was not the source of failure on the old computer, put it in the new one for more storage. Or, put it into an external enclosure for some mobile storage. Either way, move the data you wish to keep to the new computer's hard drive and do a format on the old one - not a quick format.
 
Somewhere there is a program that let's you run dual operating systems. When you turn on your machine you get a screen that lets you high light the operating system you want to open, you high light the os and hit enter. I had it for vista and xp and it worked fine. Sorry I can't think of the name.
 
^ it's a function of the stock boot loader.
 
I think I remember there's also issues with trying to boot into [an old installation of] Vista or Windows 7 in a new PC. The OS sees a new motherboard, new everything and freaks out thinking it's no longer a genuine copy, but then all I think you have to do is call Microsoft's automated "I'm actually genuine" hotline and type in 16 digit codes.

+1 for Windows 7. Migrate your old files over into your new Windows 7 installation.
 
Hey guys, a big thank you! I don't think I will try a dual boot drive. I have a few old games that run on xp, not vista but had a fix so they would work. The programmer said that it would now work for win7. Oh well, they were old games anyway.

I will plug it in, migrate the files and do a format.

I hope you all have a happy and safe holiday.

Mark
 
You can load XP into a virtual machine and run them inside it.
 
Mark......it's not quite THAT simple.
You can plug in the drive and it might show up but you won't be able to access it until you go into disk management and tell Windows to mount the drive.
After that it the files should be accessible as in any other drive.

In WIN7 just type disk management in the search box above the Start button....... :)
 
Windows should automount the drive if it's a supported file system (which I don't see why not.)
 
Thanks again guys. It has shipped and should arrive next week. I think I will just use it as additional file storage. I'll let you know how it works.
 
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