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Merlin
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Can I take a WD hard drive out of an home made AMD system and plug it into ( OS and all files included) a Dell that has a bad HDD....the PC was thrown away whole and as far as I can tell so far only has a bad HDD.
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Post by bubba »

yes, you may have trouble with getting some drivers but XP or Linux will pick up most if not all, mainly the video drivers for the on board video.


I would back up the important stuff first though, just to be safe.
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Post by KnightRid »

yep, agree with Bubba - plug her in!!

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Oh and wait for all the new stuff to be recognised and installed before messing around - you will probably have to reboot also :)
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Post by Psychosis »

May have to actually boot into safe mode and remove video drivers or such. Altho sometimes you can get lucky and it work without safe mode.
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