<p dir="ltr">Take this with a truckload of salt. I'm pretty sure that drivers for that particular computer were written to the windows registry and included for use on that computer when Windows was installed on that laptop. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I know that a full driver database is not copied from the installation media to the target disk when Windows is installed. </p>
<p dir="ltr">It has been my experience that when you try to make serious changes to hardware on any Windows machine, the install is unable, for whatever reason, to be modified to run on the new hardware. Probably due to a lack of any native registry editing tools and a focus toward insuring that you pay for every copy on every machine, every time. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I carry a programmable live installer ISO for setting up windows 7 machines, that I burn to temporary media when I need windows on a machine. This is technically piracy, but M$ doesn't support it anymore anyway. </p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want a copy, just leave a blank dvd somewhere I can find it.<br>
Also, additional blanks for any of those games. Finding install ISOs shouldn't be too hard, if the game was a popular one.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 22, 2016 11:07 PM, "Chris Bero" <<a href="mailto:bigbero@gmail.com">bigbero@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Age of Kings - Conquerors</div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">Age of Empires? That runs pretty well under Wine/PlayOnLinux for me.. <br><br>There's also the open source version: <a href="http://openage.sft.mx/" target="_blank">http://openage.sft.mx/</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">I don't know much about migrating Windows, but I do remember Windows 7 locking me out because I took a laptop hard disk and put it in a desktop... It thought I'd stolen it.. from myself.<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><p>Chris Bero<br></p></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:58 PM, david <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a laptop that came with Win7 (as well as a much older one with XP) that doesn't get used often.<br>
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What tricks do I have to play to move that Win7 to a desktop?<br>
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I can store a disk image to the backup server then load that image to a (larger) bare hard drive on the desktop with no sweat. I don't think Win7 is cpu-locked but I do think it is UUID-locked, but not sure.<br>
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Any ideas, guys?<br>
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There are some old Win games (Age of Kings - Conquerors) I'd like to play again. And Descent 3D as well. :)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
David<br>
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