I would like to put my hard drive WD Scorpio Black of my 'old' laptop in another. How can I achieve this?

I have a laptop Gateway NV52 purchased Summer 2009. It had Windows Vista on it. A year ago, the Seagate 320 GB HDD crashed. I bought two a new HDD (an excellent Western Digital Scorpio Black, 500 GB) and Windows 7 Home Premium, I always have the discs and serial number for (so it isn't a pre-installed Windows version). I just bought a HP ProBook s 4530, which does not come with a 500 GB hard drive, but I don't want to have to re - install tons of software and games I have for work and pleasure. My job requires a lot of software, that which some I have to shell out hundreds of dollars to reinstall it on a new hard drive, since there is no way to disable my current drive. I could get in touch with the companies and ask permission to re - install with a new serial number and whatnot, but it's a lot of time that I don't have, and I heard co-workers that they often will not accept, because of rising rates of piracy.

In any case, I'm wanting to know if it would be possible to disable Windows 7 on my current computer and then turn it back on with my serial number on the new. If I do this, Windows will then set up the new hardware? The hard drive I was expensive and there magnificent execution, better than one that is preinstalled on the HP. I don't want to give it up. I thought I could just put the new hard drive for HP in the old computer, reformat the hard drive and buy and install another version of 7 on it so that I can sell them.

If someone can advise, it would be much appreciated!

I'm not sure of the legal ramifications of what you want to do, but if the HP Win7 on it, then you actually have two licensed copies win7, one on each drive.
The problem you'll encounter is the difference of between the bridge and the HP drivers. You might be able to do is to download all the drivers from HP on the WD, develop into folders so you can see the configuration and/or .inf files, put it in the ch, then start in safe mode. Then when it asks for drivers, you can point to the installation files.

My guess is that you won't have much chance to do that. The only time I had this success was on the upgrade of motherboards that were very similar to the chipsets and same brand (to AMD, Intel for Intel AMD) processors. If there are different processors, all bets are open whether or not it will succeed.
If all that you are missing are the keys to setup for the software you have installed on the bridge, there are programs on the internet that will allow you to find the keys to everything you have. You might want to try first before swapping discs and possibly making it useless for a laptop.

Good luck with what stage you decide to take, but it may be easier in the long run to simply install the software on the new. If you really want the WD drive in HP, you can image the two discs with a program like Acronis True Image or Macrium Reflect which allows you to create and restore images on a CD to boot. Create images of each disk on an external drive, swap the drives in laptops, then boot from the CD of imaging and restore the image of HP on the WD drive which is now in the HP, then reinstall your programs.
And a good time was had by all :-)

SC Tom

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