Is it possible to move a hard drive from windows to another pc?

Question

Windows

I have such a situation. I want to buy a computer. I have a laptop now.
1. Is it possible to transfer a hard drive from a laptop to a PC (and will windows be preserved at the same time)
2. Is it possible to transfer windows from a laptop from hdd to a PC (ssd)

Answer 1

You can move the disk.
But it is not known whether Windows will start or not.
If the processors are of the same company and architecture, in most cases it is transferred without problems.
Only the driver will have to roll.
But there may be problems, all problems can be solved - but this is already a specialist will have to tinker.

Answer 2

can. if the processors are the same, that and there is intel or amd. otherwise Windows won't start.

Answer 3

Usually, the main transfer problem is changing the architecture of intel <--> amd, or rather, problems with the hard disk controller, usually drivers / services of one architecture do not work on another, and since the default universal ones are disabled, the system will go to bsod
The solution is usually trivial, it is necessary to remove the drivers before transferring, in this case the required universal controller driver will be included, or you will have to enable it already on a new machine, with rather inconvenient tools - this is normally done in the recovery console, booting from a CD.
ps and the license will also fly off, you need to read carefully what it says about changing hardware. for example, pre-installed operating systems (OEM) cannot be legally transferred this way

Answer 4

Quite. At worst, you will need a system image for recovery.

Answer 5

Pass sysprep then everything will be transferred.