Old HD on a new machine

Hi I had a Inspiron 9400 that lost the graphics card so instead of a replacement card I purchase another Inspiron 9400 pop the old HDD and back in business. The question I have is there anything I need to do or check in order for the new HD to function properly. I notest that there is some performance issues. confused

 

What happend to the post from "locodave" that reply with a recomandetion I like to thank him

 

Was probably taken out by admin. Not sure what your performance issues were but I would recomend updateing all your drivers then running CCleaner.

However, I should point out that what you have done is technically illegal. The OS installed will more than likely be OEM which means that it is only licenced to be used on the hardware with which it was purchased byt Installing the HD (and OS) in another PC (Even though it is the same spec) you are breaking the licence agreement.

What you should do is use the original HD that cam with the replacement 9400 and boot from that OS. Install your old HD from your original 9400 as a secondary, slave drive. Then copy all your data files off on to the new 9400s HD. If you wanted you could reformat the original HD and leave it in as a secondary drive for storage.

 

No need to thank. The admn was correct in deleting my post. I didn't think about Tueur's correct post on doing something technically illegal and helping them. Till he mentioned it.

I ran into this long ago on replacing Ither a dead hard drive on re-installing windows or motherboard on my computer. Been a long time and I forget what was done at the time.

Seem to remember when I replaced. Got the error of a illegal install. I called M/S to explain what I did. Not trying to install XP to another computer, but repairing-replacing in computer that had a part go bad in it. Original install on one computer.

Way different than buying a complete computer. ( New. ) And putting in your hard drive to make the new computer work.

Licence is for one computer. My old computers M/B died recently. Bought a replacement.
I've been searching this board as my old one had a IDE H/D. New one has the Sata drive , one M/B sata port. One IDE M/B port for the DVD and trying to figure out how to save data from the old H/D to the new one.

I can not make my old H/D a master on the IDE and disconnect the SATA drive to make it work thru bios. Have an OP system installed legal on it and I have to work with it to save data.

Learning new lingo on searches here. Sata-> Pata? Pata as I've gleaned so far is IDE.

 

Thanks for the clarification I guess I have to fix the old LP and reinstall the HDD