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Moving HDD to new identical computer
My 2 week old Dell XPS developed some intermittent malady and even
with a new motherboard and power supply the Dell Tech was not able to get it running again. Background: (you can skip to Question if you want) It was working perfectly, I had just finished all the major updating and setting up of my programs. I had the new computer on the kitchen table where it had been running and it turned it off, turned off my old computer, and swapped the two, meaning I disconnected all the wires from each, then moved the old computer out and put the new computer in where the old one had been. Hooked up all the wires (keyboard, mouse, power, speakers, Ethernet cable) and pushed the power button. NOTHING. Computer would not power on. Pulled the power cord out and used a different cord from a different outlet. Still nothing. Disconnected everything, took the computer to the table, pulled the side panel off, poked at the wires, put the side panel back on, put it back in position, hooked all the wires back up and pushed the button. Computer came on and worked perfectly. Shut it down. Pushed the power button. NOTHING. Called Dell and set up a tech to come and fix it. He arrived, pulled the side panel, poked some wires, pushed the button and it fired up and worked. Then turned it off and tried to restart.. nothing. So he put in a new motherboard. Hooked all back up. Pushed the power button.. Nothing. He put in a new power supply. Nothing. Disconnected the HDD I had put in that was a Storage drive that had been in the old computer. Pushed the button. It started. So he says "maybe your drive is bad". He power cycles. Tries to start it and NOTHING. So he disconnects ALL the drives. Still nothing. So he gives up, too many other things and he doesn't have every possible part. Question: So Dell is supposed to send me a brand new computer. Here's my question. The first computer had a regular 2T Hard drive as a "D" drive. It had a M.2 form factor SSD as the "C" drive. Since I have already installed all my programs on the original new computers C drive, and all my data on the original new computers D drive I'm thinking I should just swap in the drives from the original new computer that broke into the new one Dell is sending. The computer is supposed to be identical. I'm not worried about the D drive but If I do that will it somehow cause a problem with the C drive since the "asset tag" numbers, which the tech said get "put into the motherboard" are going to be different? Also I presume my Win10 was validated on the original computer and now it's going to be in a different computer. I hate to reinstall all the software on the new C drive but I don't want to create some other problem either. |
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