[ubuntu-za] Swapping hard drives

[wesley werner]

On 13/12/2016 18:57, Jan wrote:
> So will the Win 7 installation be unhappy enough in the older machine 
> to justify keeping me from the swap? I am quite interested to see the 
> SSD performance with a more powerful processor and 8 GB RAM!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jan
>
Hello Jan

That depends. If it is an OEM version that came pre-installed with the 
machine, then it is bound to the original motherboard, and dropping the 
HDD in a new machine will likely invalidate the license, only causing grief.

If it is a retail version of windows, don't feel too lucky just yet. It 
might still invalidate the license from the hardware change, and you 
will need to call microsoft to re-activate the license. More grief.

Worst case, you have to buy a new windows license. Other worst case, you 
have to buy a new windows license.

Jan if you have the time, you can grab clonezilla and snapshot the 
windows partition before switching the disks, if it does not work out 
you can at least roll back :)

Wes