Cracka
CAG Newbie
My girlfriend's laptop got a virus or something which has messed up the hard-drive. I ran the internal diagnostics that came with the computer and its saying that its not a software problem but a hardware problem with the hard drive.
It's a dell, her warranty expired shortly before this happened (who would've guessed). To get a new hard-drive plus to buy windows etc seems like its going to cost an arm and a leg. The only thing the computer will really do right now is go to the menu where it lets you choose the order in which your computer boots: hard drive, cd rom, etc..
So my question is, could you take a hard-drive out of a desktop computer which already has windows xp installed on it, put it in a external hard drive case, and use the windows already installed on the desktop's hard drive? Or would there be a problem with drivers or something?
If any of you have any clue about this, please let me know.
It's a dell, her warranty expired shortly before this happened (who would've guessed). To get a new hard-drive plus to buy windows etc seems like its going to cost an arm and a leg. The only thing the computer will really do right now is go to the menu where it lets you choose the order in which your computer boots: hard drive, cd rom, etc..
So my question is, could you take a hard-drive out of a desktop computer which already has windows xp installed on it, put it in a external hard drive case, and use the windows already installed on the desktop's hard drive? Or would there be a problem with drivers or something?
If any of you have any clue about this, please let me know.