Thanks for the detailed reply. I have an OEM disk of Win7 Home Premium
and I've come up against the problem that the disk is keyed to the key
on the box, you can't install it with a different key, but you can
change the key afterwards. The Elitebook, as I remember now, has, Win7
Pro on it, the key is labeled on the bottom. It's a refurb and there
isn't much on it. I agree with the opinion on HP software, usually it's
junk, and poorly written. For a Win7 Pro image, your link will come in
handy.
The alternate and interesting method would be to see if the Win10
install currently on the SSD would be able to adjust to the Elitebook.
There was an old Win7 Home Premium on the SSD when I installed Win10.
It took about 4 to 5 hours before it got around to finally booting, but
all the still installed applications and games worked. I was fascinated
to find that Macrium Reflect v4 worked on Win10. I used that to clone
the SSD to a std HD so I could used the SSD in the elitebook. The other
interesting result was when, on the Win10 system, I replaced the Nvidia
G210 with an AMD 6850. Win10 basically acted like it was reinstalling
the whole system, took about an hour.
Thanks...Steve
On 12/24/2014 4:22 PM, Robbie Pence wrote:
The cleanest way to do it is back up your stuff, and start fresh with a new
OS install. Transferring the data from HDD to SSD means you're ending up
with potentially not optimized installs for the SSD, possible data
corruption, blah blah blah.
To make sure you have your original Windows 7 product key, use Nirsoft
ProduKey. Just run it, and either write the key down or save to a text
file.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/produkey.zip
If you need a Windows 7 disk, they're freely available to download and burn
from Microsoft:
http://www.howtogeek.com/186775/how-to-download-windows-7-8-and-8.1-installation-media-legally/
To top it off, you'll get no HP bloatware with this configuration - just
clean, beautiful Windows. Download the drivers to a flash drive, and you're
golden.
To speed up installing the stuff you need, pick what you want from
www.ninite.com . it'll download all the common stuff you need (browser,
Java, Reader, Libre, VLC, AV) and install it without junkware tagging
along.
By the way, congratulations on buying an HP EliteBook. The used ones are a
fantastic deal for a ton of horsepower.
Happy Holidays,
-Robbie / @Truefire_
On Dec 24, 2014 8:23 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <amar...@charter.net> wrote:
The Samsung software has worked across several systems for me.
Sent from my mobile device.
On Dec 24, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Steve Tomporowski <didym...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I picked up a used HP Elitebook and I'm looking to replace the drive
with an SSD. I have two options as to the operating system. I can either
transfer the old HD to the SSD or I can leave the SSD intact which has a
Win10 install on it currently. The original drive has all the annoying HP
software on it and right now I don't know how much of that is needed or if
it's just the normal HP software which has no real useful purpose, but just
gets in your way. Anyone have any experience with HP Elitebooks?
And does anyone have any recommendation as to transfer software? The
samsung software that came with the SSD (about a year ago) did not work
with my desktop system.
Merry Christmas All!
Steve
