When you just copy or clone the HDD from one PC to another, all those drivers and the registry details go with them to the new hardware, where they mean nothing at all to the new hardware, which consequently fails to start or otherwise explodes in your face. The registry is just a chunk of data saved on the hard drive that you cannot easily change yourself with text editors and so on. The way all those different pieces of hardware can work is down to very specific 'driver' software that interfaces your hardware with the one common factor - the Windows operating system itself.īecause of a shockingly short-sighted decision made over a decade ago by Microsoft, all the details of those drivers is stored in one database, called the registry. This difference lies mostly in the hardware - hardware which reads your disc drives, USB plug-ins, printers, network, video card, memory, CPU, keyboard, mouse and a host of other alternative stuff. Every motherboard is different, and laptops versus desktops are more different still. ![]() I'm afraid your grasp of how Windows works may be a bit weak. After what you say you have done, a Windows PC will normally not start at all.
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