I have a laptop with Windows 7 and another with Windows Vista, and I wanted to copy the Windows 7 version from the first laptop to another. Is that possible and how should you do it?
You can copy your entire operating system from one hard drive to another using software.
Or do you only want to set up Windows 7 on the Vista laptop without copying your data?
Note when copying that it can cause errors in the drivers.
How does it work?
Which of the two options do you want to try?
Do you have two Win7 licenses?
No
The second.
Do you need it?
If you have a valid Windows 7 key, you must first download an "ISO" file from Microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/...d/windows7
Otherwise, you have to look on the Internet where you get a Windows 7 ISO file.
Then you take a USB stick and make the stick "bootable".
I recommend you the tool rufus:
https://rufus.ie
If everything worked, you can now plug the USB stick into the second laptop, boot from it, and install Windows.
ATTENTION: By reinstalling Windows you delete all data from the hard disk.
Remarks:
What exactly is "booting" and how it works on your laptop you have to read the best in Internet.
I recommend you a USB stick with 8GB or 16GB.
There's also the possibility to use a DvD to install, also for this I would ask you to read on the Internet how to do it.
It may be that your old Windows Vista laptop is simply too old and could have problems with Windows 7.
Remember: "Google is your friend"
OK, thanks 😅
Based on the previous answers, I recommend the following:
Install on the old laptop, which now has Vista, just directly Windows 10. The reason: You have no Win 7 Key, and from Jan 2020 anyway runs the support for Win 7.
You can buy here https://www.mmoga.de/Software/Windows/Microsoft-Windows-10-Professional-OEM.html?ref=392&affiliate_subid2=dynamic_de_full_dynamic and download herehttps://www.microsoft.com/de-de/software-download/windows10, for example. Create a bootable USB stick.
For the other laptop with Win 7, it's also worthwhile to upgrade to Win 10, and you even have a good chance that you can continue to use the previous Win 7 Productkey for Win 10.
Thank you
