Any version of windows 2000 and above gets a bit pissed off if you install it on one machine and shove the drive into another machine afterwards.
I did that on one HDD a few years back, found it again recently, shoved it into another desktop I had lying around and Windows 2000 bluescreens on boot even though it was perfect 2 years ago on the old desktop. Its not a disk fault because the fedora core 3 installed on it also still works 100% perfectly.
if your original PC has a working cd drive and bios then you should be able to just install it in the pc you want to use it in.