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Swap Hard Drives in Mine and Missus' NC10s?

ytareh · 2009-01-11 16:57:16

Ok so Ive just bought a new white one and she says she prefers it to the black.All the same to me, so can I swap hard drives ?I havent even taken the new one out of the box .Hers is fully installed and validated with a pile of extra software installed.Will Windows 'recognise' individual hard drives and cry foul or is this…

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11-01-2009 5:57pm

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ytareh

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Ok so Ive just bought a new white one and she says she prefers it to the black.All the same to me, so can I swap hard drives ?I havent even taken the new one out of the box .Hers is fully installed and validated with a pile of extra software installed.Will Windows 'recognise' individual hard drives and cry foul or is this a piece of cake ?
I presume its handy enough to get the hard drive out as in Advent 4211 etc ?

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It should work fine without any problems.

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#3 11-01-2009 9:35pm
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Yep worked perfectly despite the two drives being different makes ...Hitachi and Western Digital (both 160GB)

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