Saving and/or Transferring Entire Desktop Panels?

[Moltke]

Oh no, no, no!

I wasn't trying to boot it up in a different machine.  I can understand why that might not work.  I wasn't trying to bootleg a copy of Windows

Oh I see...my bad! Since you were talking about different pcs I wrongly assumed that was what you were trying to do.

I even took it to a compute shop to see if they could do it, they said they could but they would charge me $200 to do it!  And I even had the new drive to put in it.  I said, "No way".  I'm not paying $200 just to clone my drive.  I can buy a brand new Windows 10 OS for something like $119.  In fact I can almost buy a whole new notebook computer for $200

If I may ask, since you have a new HDD, why don't you just make a fresh new Windows install on it? I think it will be easier that way; backup your data from the old drive, replace it wih the new one and install Windows on it.