Desktop or laptop?

Yes, I had the same thing happen - motherboard went bad on a Windows 7 PC. I assume the SSD drive you refer to is the boot drive, and you expect to plug that into your motherboard and have it boot. It will very likely balk at Windows just as Lawrie said, but I was able to call Microsoft, explain the bad motherboard, and get the code to continue. Easy, actually, and it worked fine from there. I chose to keep my other drives unplugged, and add them after. The drive letters may be assigned differently, but you can change that.


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