So about five years ago I bought an HP desktop running Windows 7, a refurbished model from Tiger Direct. Now, the power supply has quit. Not sure at the moment if the part can even be found but the mobile repair service that was out here yesterday mentioned that I could find the same model PC on Amazon and just swap out the hard drives and carry on like before.
Turns out that's true, $105 with free shipping on Amazon, lets me save my data and avoid buying a new desktop I really can't afford at the moment.
So my question is, if I got a new refurbished model and swapped out the hard drive, would I be looking at any issue with keycodes? Or updates? It took about 12 hours to install updates the last time.
Or is it literally plug and play and carry on? It also now occurs that I could use the $105 PC as a source for the power supply that spit the bit. I'm sure that would truly be plug and play.
As always thanks in advance.