- Dec 17, 2009
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I have noticed a ton of HDD's on eBay (and cheap) with Windows 7 installed. Obviously these must have been business machine, their HDD's wiped, given the re-install of Windows 7 and then the HDD pulled for sale.
But sticking that HDD into a new system with a different motherboard should result in problems with authentication, correct?
These drives can be pretty darned cheap and no doubt it would be a great way of say upgrading my aunt's computer, which is still on XP and vulnerable, or my dad's spare computer, which runs Vista and sux some serious @ss due to bloatware.
My aunt could really benefit from something like this. I doubled her RAM a few years back (pulled from a dead machine I found) and even gave her a basic video card to get her off the MB's shared video. Her system can likely handle Windows 7 and be no slower than what she currently has.
But sticking that HDD into a new system with a different motherboard should result in problems with authentication, correct?
These drives can be pretty darned cheap and no doubt it would be a great way of say upgrading my aunt's computer, which is still on XP and vulnerable, or my dad's spare computer, which runs Vista and sux some serious @ss due to bloatware.
My aunt could really benefit from something like this. I doubled her RAM a few years back (pulled from a dead machine I found) and even gave her a basic video card to get her off the MB's shared video. Her system can likely handle Windows 7 and be no slower than what she currently has.