Gentlemen,
Forgive me.  I need a little help.  And you guys know this stuff!
A client of mine had a new, Windows 7, HP laptop. 
Supposedly, the motherboard died.  He sent it to HP.
     Client kept the hard drive off the dead laptop
HP sent him a brand new replacement laptop (same model).
     I know same-model machines can be different / have different drivers and controllers (counter-intuitive, but true).
What would you expect to happen if he:
     “opened the new laptop and replace it’s drive with the old drive?”  I know the old drive is good.  I just looked at it in an enclosure.
If this (drive-replacement) is a BAD idea, we’re still OK, because I (will soon) have an image of the old drive, and an imaging program (ShadowDesktop from StorageCraft) ) and can restore this image onto the new machine.
Thanks and sorry.
David
Replace drive in new, replacement laptop with drive from old laptop??

Rad wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 2:03pm:

I agree. It should boot as if the HD was in the old computer. But you never know with Win7. At the worst it will need a "repair" from the Win7 DVD.

cardinal23 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 1:12pm:

That may not work because of HP's 240 head geometry.

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