[Xarune]

I just got my computer parts in the mail, but windows 7 gets here in a few days.
I was wondering if i could take a hard drive out of a older computer we don't use any temporarily run off that. It was windows xp on it. Then when windows 7 gets here, take out the old drive, and put in a new hard drive and install windows 7 on it (full version on a blank hard drive) without any complications.

Also dumb question: the newer drive came as a bare drive, its a SATA, is all I need for that drive just a motherboard connector cable to make it work?

 

[IT-Tech]

Hi...

If you mean can you take the drive with Windows XP on it, plug it into the new system, and run XP off it until your new OS CD arrives... Then NO, you cannot. The hardware will most likely be significantly different than what is in your current system. In which case you will get a BSOD when you boot. It's not impossible to do it, but you will most likely have to go thru a bunch of hoops to reactivate that XP version since the hardware is significantly different.

You will need a SATA drive cable and a SATA power cable (on the Power Supply or via an adapter) to connect and power the drive.

Thanks!