I am a techie, supporting several hundred Win7 PCs.
Have a couple of questions regarding my personal Dell Studio PC. It crashed fatally a few months back. For various reasons, I am just replacing it now with another Dell model.
My original hard drives are OK, the old PC blew a motherboard and it made more sense to get a new CPU. This new CPU has a large SSD hard drive and a 2nd conventional drive.
I had no warning about the crash, so I have no idea what all my apps are, let alone where the CDs/DVDs and installation files are. I would like to first start out with my old hard drive in there, get the PC up and running, then transfer the C drive to the solid-state drive via Acronis.
I am going to take the video card and sound card from my old PC to my new PC. That should ease many driver issues. I will have access to the Internet from another PC and I also will have a DVD that comes with the new PC.
I wanted to run this past the great people in this forum. I know it will be a lot of work, that is part of the deal.
Will I have any issues with Windows 7 rejecting the new CPU with the old hard drive. Will Win7 reject the new hard drive after I clone the drive and migrate it to the solid state drive? I also have Windows 360 which can be a pain. Should I expect any license problems there.
Anything else I should do? Luckily I am backed up twice, moving data files is not an issue.
Thoughts?