How to migrate a Vista hard disk on a Windows 7 computer?

Hello

I just got a new xps of 8700 minitower with windows 7.

-Can I just disconnect the hard drive from vista to an optiplex 755 and add it to the new machine xps as a second hdd?

-This will automatically create a dual boot option?

Not better or worse, they are still too dissimilar to count on anything whatsoever, and the 9020 is much more recent.  It may be able to load the drivers, he needs on the fly, but probably not.  You must also manually add Vista bootloader of Windows 7.  In addition, you still wouldn't be the license/right to execute your OEM Vista on another computer (downgrade rights would run Vista Business only as a downgrade from Windows 7 Pro only).

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