My brother is experiencing issues with his Dell laptop. He has a hard drive that is functioning to my knowledge, and he needs to know if he can transfer his current hard drive to another Dell laptop, presumably of the same model.
Would this work? Speedy replies %26amp; sources are definitely appreciated!Is it possible to transfer one Dell laptop hard drive to another Dell laptop?yes.
I have done this with hdds I have bought from Ebay and just fired them into my laptop. Your potential problem is that windows will setup according to your hardware. The only time this has never worked for me was when taking an amd windows setup hdd and trying to straight use it with an intel setup.
If your mates laptop is just the same it should work fine. If its slightly different it might just be unstable, but will probably work.
If you want to check to see if it's just your windows that has problems not your hardware, you could try running a linux boot disc. You can run this in your RAM
without having to install. Ubuntu is a common linux distro but there are many.Is it possible to transfer one Dell laptop hard drive to another Dell laptop?If it is the same model, more than likely you can. It would be a good idea to go to the Dell driver site and download all the drivers for the model the drive is going into, just to be safe. Device drivers can differ from machine to machine, even if its the same model, depending on when they were actually assembled.
Find the service tag number on the laptop you're going to put the drive into on this site
http://support.dell.com/support/download鈥?/a>
It should give you all the drivers associated with that particular laptop so that you can have them if you need them. You could put them on a CD or even in a folder on the drive if you wanted to.Is it possible to transfer one Dell laptop hard drive to another Dell laptop?well...YES it is. But if the hardware is to different inside it wont boot up. may have to format and install widows clean.
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