Question about SSD in 9150.

So since I'm waiting for my 9150 with a 7970m, I have the SSD sitting here waiting, could I install windows on it while its plugged into my desktop and not install any drivers? Or would there be problems?

 

problems, definitely advised against. i'm not even sure if you could boot after moving the drive from one board to another.

 

I kinda figured, I'd never tried it, so thought I'd ask lol

 

He should be able to boot (Windows 7 is pretty good at it actually), but there will most likely be other driver problems. The first time you load up Windows on a drive that was moved from one computer to another it has to auto-detect/install drivers, and this leads to multiple drivers being installed for certain components and that kind of thing. Also, you don't save much time doing this as the phase of detecting and installing drivers runs ridiculously slow since there aren't any real drivers.

So in other words: don't do it.

 

very interesting. didn't know that and wouldn't have ever tested it. so taking driver conflicts into account, i wonder if it'd be a clean drive swap between identical rigs.

 

I would assume so, but the only times I've ever done it have been if a family member's CPU/mobo died and I generally couldn't find cost-effective replacements.

 

When my last laptop died because of it's dodgy nVidia gpu, I put the drive from that straight into my new p150hm. Worked fine straight away. It took a bit of time to clean old drivers, and install the new ones, but most stuff works with generic drivers while doing that. You may have an issue with an oem os, as it's. Meant for the original hardware, but retail, no problem.

 

Install, set up your stuff, sysprep, shutdown and transfer over to your new computer to take case of potential drivers issues.

Some variations would also be possible with VHDs and WIM files.

 

I have done exactly this with notebooks with not CD/DVD drives, I did a few installs and went this route because i was too lazy haha. I would start the install on my dekstop with the ssd installed and when windows finished installing for the first time, before any restarts I would hard shutdown, then when i plugged the ssd into the notebook it would detect the notebook's hardware and install the generic drivers, from then it's been smooth sailing on all of the systems.

(I don't recommend this option, I only went down this path because the notebooks didn't support booting from usb and they had no cd/dvd drives; therefore I wasn't able to install windows the regular way).

 

I did this exact thing with some friends the other day. It is totally possible, super easy. You have to use the System Preparation Tool. Check out the link:
Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer - Windows 7 Forums