This is hopefully an easy question?!
I have an 8 year old Dell Dimension E521 with Vista Home Premium installed. Unfortunately it has "died". A friend gave me a similar spec E521 (with Vista Home Basic installed). If I substitute my HD in this machine, will it boot up? Or is my Vista OS "locked" to my old pc??
Alternatively, if I install my HD as a secondary drive, will I presumably be able to access its data?
I note my CD drive data cable is inserted next to the HD SATA slot (normally reserved for a 2nd HD?). Can a 2nd HD data cable be inserted into one of the two SATA slots lower down (which I thought were normally used for CD drives?)??
I will appreciate any guidance.
Regards.