old xp laptop hd on new windows 7 laptop?

Rich08

Hello
I have an old laptop (Acer) which was loaded with xp but although the hd is still working fine the laptopps pretty well broken so unusable.

My question is,is there anyway i can buy a usb case for the old laptop hd running xp and get it to work on my windows 7 laptop via the usb (new laptop is packard bell windows 7 64 bit)

Reason being i want to run some car diagnostic software which is specific to windows xp and although i ve downloaded vmware virtual software i would have to buy a copy of xp to install(which ill do but id just prefer to use my old laptop hd if possible??

Thanks in advance

closed

what's wrong with the laptop? If it's not hardware restore to factory settings or

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

you can use virtual pc and disk2vhd to load an image of the disk into a virtual machine, both free

stilltheone

If it's just a one off, you don't need to buy XP, as you get thirty days before you need to activate it anyway.

Rich08

closed wrote: »

what's wrong with the laptop? If it's not hardware restore to factory settings or

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

you can use virtual pc and disk2vhd to load an image of the disk into a virtual machine, both free

Laptop is nt an option im afraid as the screen is broken off,keyboards broken and its effectively in pieces.

ill go and google the software you mention now and thanks very much for replying

Rich08

stilltheone wrote: »

If it's just a one off, you don't need to buy XP, as you get thirty days before you need to activate it anyway.

Good point in the short term but its really an ongoing thing to monitor my car as and when faults arise.

thanks for the suggestion

Rich08

closed wrote: »

what's wrong with the laptop? If it's not hardware restore to factory settings or

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

you can use virtual pc and disk2vhd to load an image of the disk into a virtual machine, both free

I ve just had a look and started downloading the softwares

If ive understood correctly the virtual pc will run my old laptop hd which has been loaded onto my new laptop with the use of the disk2vhd software??

cheers

closed

in theory yes, disk2vhd creates a disk image (.vhd) of the old hard disk, and virtual pc will launch it as a virtual pc.

it may or may not work, and the software you have may not work fully under a virtual pc environment if it requires hardware to plug into the laptop for diagnostics, but worth a try

Rich08

closed wrote: »

in theory yes, disk2vhd creates a disk image (.vhd) of the old hard disk, and virtual pc will launch it as a virtual pc.

it may or may not work, and the software you have may not work fully under a virtual pc environment if it requires hardware to plug into the laptop for diagnostics, but worth a try

I will give your suggestion a try and see how it goes

Thanks again