I need to replace my Acer laptop. (I was trying to fix the hinges, now the machine does not turn on at all in addition to having busted hinge anchor points...... I think I messed up the connector for the switch to the board, but it's excuse for new machine......) Is there any reason I can't transfer the old hard drive, with system built as I like it, to the new machine, assuming I download and install all the drivers to run chipset/hardware components on the new machine?
FWIW, the original laptop was an E1-571 with Windows 8 pre-installed, which I deleted in favor of Windows 7. Used an OEM disc for clean install of pure W7 and just downloaded the various drivers for the machine, and things workd great. I also cloned the setup to an SSD, which is significantly smaller than the original HD that came with the machine, so there should be no issue re drive fitting into a new machine. Do I need to worry about BIOS for a new machine expecting to see the version of Windows that comes installed on the new machine? I wouldn't think so, since as noted I wiped W8 from my old machine in favor of W7, but one never knows where glitches can arise. Any other considerations???
Thanks.