u could clone it, but you need two OS's. So I dont recomend this. (2 because you need activate windows and run windows updates)
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for my desktop I was able to clone it but the laptop is coming on thursday so i wanna make sure I can do this so I dont have to reinstall everything plus I'd rather have windows 7 ultimate then vista home
Use drive cloning software. DriveImageXXL will do it for free, but I hear the Acronis True Image trial software can get the job done too. You'll have to get the two drives (desktop and laptop) attached to one system - whether you use an external enclosure to hook the desktop drive to your laptop, or you pop out the laptop drive and install it in your desktop.
I don't recommend this course of action, though. Reinstalling everything is no fun, but at least theres a good chance everything will work when its all said and done. Windows historically flips out when its installed and one set of hardware and then is suddenly presented with a completely different set of hardware. That may or may not be the case with Windows 7, but you might end up spending more time trying to fix it than you would have reinstalling everything in the first place.
Couldn't you just install the OS on the laptop and then copy all files from your PC to your laptop - minus the OS? Basically transfer files from the PC to your laptop....I guess I've never had to do anything like this before so I'm not sure if it would work well, but just an idea. I do know that massive hardware changes really pisses off your Windows OS - you'd be extremely lucky if you were able to boot into Windows if you cloned your desktop HDD to your laptop.
[QUOTE="neatfeatguy"]Couldn't you just install the OS on the laptop and then copy all files from your PC to your laptop - minus the OS? Basically transfer files from the PC to your laptop....I guess I've never had to do anything like this before so I'm not sure if it would work well, but just an idea. I do know that massive hardware changes really pisses off your Windows OS - you'd be extremely lucky if you were able to boot into Windows if you cloned your desktop HDD to your laptop. i want all the registry files etc etc there
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