Here's the deal - what's your opinion on the topic? My friend did it, transferred his old hdd to his brand new pc against my advice. He made sure all the new hardware was correctly identified by his old operating system.
Now, I always believed such action invites trouble, but he swears he did it several times and never had problems before.
Awful. I did the same thing (because I had countless applications installed and am lazy in general). All supposedly seemed to work alright, it asked for drivers which I had and after a restart all was supposedly fine. Not really. System was slow, USB devices had problems and the worst, whenever I'd remove a USB mouse or keyboard (to connect to the laptop for instance), the system would BSOD.
Problems can come from left-over drivers from his old hardware, locations becoming irrelevant in the registry, etc. It is a sloppy work but reinstalling everything can be a plain in the ass thus I won't blame him for trying the lazy way.
I had to do it with my current build and let me tell you it raped my systems performance. Even after uninstalling the drivers and getting the new ones. But I only did this to get my new router configured and to throw allot of shit on my new pure storage harddrive that I didn't have time to backup before hand. I then formatted my harddrive and reinstalled XP the performance difference was much better.
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