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Use old win7-10 hdd to upgrade vista pc?
Hello everyone and thank you for making this forum available.
I appreciate your willingness and generosity to share your knowledge and experience.
I am seeking advice and suggestions on upgrading a Vista PC from a hard drive that
came out of my Win7-Win10 laptop.
(The laptop mobo-gpu burned up)
I want to upgrade the Vista PC to Win7-Win10 because apps I use run better on Win7-Win10.
Also, MS will support Win7-Win10 longer into the future than Vista.
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The Vista PC is a Gateway DX4710-09
(about 5 years old, works great)
Vista Home Prem x64 SP2
586 gig hdd with 435 gig free
6 gig ram
Win7 Update Advisor says OK to upgrade.
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The Win7-Win10 laptop HDD came from a Gateway NV7310u
(about 4 years old, the hdd works great, the laptop mobo-gpu burned out)
Win7 Home Prem x64 successfully upgraded to Win10 via the free upgrade
250 gig hdd with 125 gig free
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I made a DVD of Win7 sp1 x17-58997.iso
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I have a Sabrent USB-DSC9 hard drive adapter
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Thanks again for your help!