How do i make a clean install of widows on my HP Probook 5310m or my HP Laptop.

Hi, how with a HP Probook 5310m can i use a Win 7 64 bit OS from my destop which is broken, i want to do an install with that disk.
But i dont want to lose WIFI or any other specific drivers. I am rreasonably confident that I could install Mint Linux and everything would work fine that i needed. But Windows is not as easy. I am sure I would run into trouble. Or is there another way ?
Should I do something now to prepare for the future, its a refurbished "new" Probook. I am only asking for future reference ?
But my HP Laptop which cost a few thousand, is running so slow and its only a few years old, Win 7 pro 64 bit. Its a quarter, thats being kind of the speed it was and thats after uninstalling a lot of programs. All i really need is MS Office and MYOB ?
Sorry its not with me now but im pretty sure it did not come with a copy of windows either ? I can ask about it in a new post with the correct details so right now i really will focus on the Probook Question thanks

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