Re: Swapping Laptop Hard drives

Alex Buell wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:27:13 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of BIC:

I've just ordered a new Dell laptop with Vista Home Premium. I also
have a 6 month old HP laptop running Windows XP. I intend to give
the HP to my son but would like to keep using Windows XP with all
the programmes and files installed on its hard drive. My question
is can I just swap the 2 hard drives so that the Dell can operate
with the donated drive from the HP and vice versa? Thanks in advance

No

You need to explain why he cannot do that.

Unsupported hardware, licencing issues, licences locked to motherboards......

Easier to reinstall all the user software on Vista, if it'll run.
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Tciao for Now!

John.
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