Am, in shock.. right now.
Went to look at wiping the hard drive from the now dead Dell... & was... surprised, when the desktop, hove into view.
Last I knew of, Windows.. had it set that once the Op sys was installed into a hard drive, it was collared to the MB that the HD was chained to.
If any aspect of the MB, died... it was the bone yard for the HD, as in having to wipe it out before you could use it with a new MB.
Can, only assume that Microshaf... erhm
, Microsoft... got their head outta their aft quarters, & made it so that the new Op sys, is NOT slaved to the MB any more, but is now instead... able to be made a back up on & able to be dropped into a new HD if there is need... or the HD is still usable, it can be relocated to a new MB/computer...
This is, of course, pure speculation... but, given the end results I have... can only think that is the case.
Any way... am back in the hunt....
M. M.