BTW- I've always been curious about this: If I were to take out the C: drive from a computer such as this and buy a new computer (using all the same peripherals), could I simply swap it with the drive on the new computer? Or does a different MOBO, BIOS etc., necessitate reinstalling all the drivers, software, etc on the new unit's drive?
You can swap it into a new computer and occasionally Windows will boot from it . . . more often than not though, you're going to have issues from the different hardware on your new computer. You can always read the data off your old HDD by plugging it into a new computer, and booting up off of the new HDD to recover files though.
