This best thing to do in your situation would be to backup any important files to an external drive game screenshots is one I always forget . Then , you ' re going to want to find the windows key you used when you installed Windows on your current machine . Copy this down and have it handy . Take the hard drive out and put it in the new system , install windows normally , and then copy those files back to the new system . Generally speaking a Windows install is tied to a cpu and motherboard and won ' t want to run on anything other than what it was installed on . Good luck ! <| sep |> Obvious ang age ! <| sep |> They tried it once . Scott Steiner got pissed off when the first question was from FatAssFromCanada 65 and shut down the AMA .