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Want old Windows HDD with Window 7 Home &new Win10 Home on new compute
I can't figure out how to do this. I don't have experience with two drives, dual boot, and such things.
My HP laptop with a 1 TB hard drive with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit broke its cooling fan and the repair place says it would they might not be able to fix it even though I already have a new fan and heatsink they can put in it.
So I bought a new all-in-one HP desktop with touch screen, two drive bays and a 1 TB hard drive and 256 GB SSD in it. To begin with I don't even know what an SSD looks like and whether it's taking up one of the two bays, or if one bay is still free. I will call HP tomorrow and ask.
I am thinking about taking the hard drive from the laptop and putting it into the new desktop. HP says it will fit and that can be done. But I am also thinking that I'd like to have Windows10 on that desktop computer too. I am trying to figure out how to do this.
There is no operating system on the new desktop computer - I asked them to ship it without one. I also have my own Windows 7 Pro on 32 and 64 bit disks that I bought quite a while ago for a different laptop, and I can get a new Windows 7 Home 64 bit disk.
I can also get a new 1 or 2 TB hard drive (preferably 2.... now kicking myself for not ordering 2 since my existing 1 TB drive in the laptop is 3/4ths full).
So I think there are a lot of options and possible combinations there. I am just not capable of thinking it through and deciding what to do!!! And whatever I do I won't have help because everyone else here is a Mac person. And I borrowed one of theirs until I can get this sorted out.
In fact, I don't even know if the touchscreen would work if I am using the Windows 7 Home OS on the new computer. I guess I don't really care if it wouldn't work with Win7 because I don't expect to like having my arm stretched out for hours poking at a screen.
Can I get some suggestions for what to do?
I have not done anything with computer hard disks in years and years. About 4 years ago I installed Windows XP on an old computer whose hard drive had failed, and I got a new hard drive and installed XP just for the comfort of knowing it was there. It wasn't hard to do. Looong before that I used Partition Magic to partition a hard drive.
At this point in time I consider myself as pretty much not knowing anything about hard disks and definitely zero about solid state drives. In reading threads here I constantly have to look up acronyms I've never seen before. I did look at the tutorial here on dual boot and got pretty confused.
Here are specs of the new computer taken off the order sheet.
HP EliteOne 800 G2 23" Touch All-in-One
PC with AMD® Radeon™ R9 360 2GB GDDR5 Graphics (L3N94AV)Product number: L3N94AV
Thanking you all in advance!!
•FreeDOS
•HP USB-C to USB 3.0 Adapter
•1 TB 7200 RPM SATA 6G 2.5" HDD
•HP USB Business Slim Keyboard
•16GB DDR4-2133 SODIMM (2x8GB) RAM
•HP EliteOne 800 G2 AiO Country Kit US
•Slim DVD-Writer
•Intel® 8260 802.11ac M.2 Network Interface Card with Bluetooth®
•HP Adjustable Height Stand
•Intel® Core™ i7-6700 (3.4 GHz, up to 4 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost, 8 MB cache, 4 cores) + Intel® HD Graphics 530
•256 GB HP Z Turbo Drive G2 TLC PCIe SSD