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Booting question
Not sure I'm posting in the proper place, but perhaps someone can answer. I have a XPS 435 and a Inspiron 620. The XPS has died and I need to use that hard drive. It's a Hitachi sata drive. I put it in the inspiron but can't boot to it. Bios sees the drive and I can access the files once I'm in windows, but I need to boot to the drive. What are my options. Will that drive work in any model xps or just the 435? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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December 29th, 2012 11:00
You cannot use the drive as a boot device. You can access your data files by taking ownership of them once the drive is connected as a secondary (see link below) but you can't use a drive with Windows installed on one set of hardware in another.
To take ownership of your files, see
technet.microsoft.com/.../cc753659.aspx
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January 1st, 2013 07:00
Well...okay. That petty much sucks. Thanks very much for your response.