Swapping a hard-drive with a windows installation between Laptops?

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Toby

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Dell is replacing my Vostro 1500, but I don't really want to reinstall windows. Can I just simply... swap the hard drives? The problem was in other areas.

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Toby
 
should work. I took my old harddrive with windows xp home out of my old emachines to use in current rig until I got a new hdd. Worked fine. It was just a little noisy because it was a ide drive.
 
If Dell is giving you another Vostro 1500, shouldn't be any problems. If it was a different laptop model, there might be problems. While on occasions I have seen XP installations moved from one PC to another and still work, those moved installations don't perform as well as a fresh install.
 
yeah, if its a dell it should work fine.. i ghost dell images all the time into same model dell computers and they run perfectly. essentially the same thing as moving the hard drive from one to another.
 
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