My HP Pavilion G7 1310US is history, but the new hard drive with all my drivers and data is good...

[jmwren]

I need to purchase another laptop after my G7 hit the floor and the motherboard cracked. My HP Pavilion G7 1310US is history, but the new hard drive with all my drivers and data is good...I think my ram is ok as well. The hard drive is a brand new Seagate 1TB SSHD drive. I have recovered my old computer with a Acronus TRUE Image file from last year from my external hard drive. I also was in the process of recovering my latest backup from the Acronus cloud. Then it happened my computer hit the floor. Cracked the motherboard. So to use this recovered hard drive with my OS and system restored as an image, do I have to have the exact same laptop? (due to the drivers installed in the image backup for my actual laptop?) If I can't find one, do I have any other options being I have an Acronus cloud backup and an external backup, My cloud backup expires on the 5th of July, so I have to act fast. The hard drive was less then 4 hours away from recovery when my computer hit the floor. Hoping all that is there. I am about to put it in an external enclosure and see what's there. Please advise. thanks.

[CherylG]

You list your OS as Windows 10 so I assume you took the free Upgrade or paid for an upgrade to the original Windows 7? If so the OS installed on the hard drive is not going to work in another laptop. Microsoft assigns a digital license key and records the hardware id of the machine in a database. It would most likely deactivate when you connect to the internet.

There is a small chance an exact motherboard "might" work and it not deactivate-have never seen that scenario yet. I tend to think it wouldn't work.

If  instead ,you still have the original OS from HP installed- it will only work if you install a motherboard from another G7 1310US. Otherwise it will deactivate just like Windows 10.