Swapping Laptop Hard drives

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


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