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Alec Williams

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Hello everyone,

Straightforward question here,

I am currently running an HP All in One PC, that is UEFI. The OS is Windows 10 Home 64 bit. I want to take the HDD and put it into a Dell XPS 410, but I am worried that since the XPS is old, the legacy BIOS will not allow Windows 10 to boot. I cannot find any information anywhere about this, please help!

(I apologise if I sound inexperienced, I am much better with hardware than software related things)
 
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You need to reinstall windows on that HDD once you swapped it, since other drivers need to be installed with it.

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"No, Windows 10 will continue to support legacy BIOS. For new devices that are launched a year after the release of Windows 10, they must have UEFI and Secure Boot enabled at the factory. This does not affect existing systems."

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...i/1ced300f-6141-4d8e-ad55-016ef69acc99?auth=1
 
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Alec Williams

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Hello, Thank you to everyone who replied to this, I discovered that I cannot use said drive in the XPS due to it being in GPT format rather than MBR, So I went with a new HDD and a fresh install of Win10
 
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