Can I just swap laptop hard drives over?

[boing]

My mum has an old Dell Inspiron 6400 which I put an SSD into to try and speed up, I've bought her a Lenovo Ideapad 310 for Christmas to replace it but it has a 56k HDD. Both are running Win 10, can I just put the SSD into the Lenovo and fire it up or do I need to find drivers or something first to preload on it?

 

[corkyg]

Short answer, no! Two distinctly different laptop brands will more than likely require a clean install. You can, however, clone the Lenovo HDD to a SSD, swap and boot normally.

 

[boing]

That might be a better option anyway, just remembered my mums running 32 bit Win 10.

Cheers!

 

[geecee]

My mum has an old Dell Inspiron 6400 which I put an SSD into to try and speed up, I've bought her a Lenovo Ideapad 310 for Christmas to replace it but it has a 56k HDD. Both are running Win 10, can I just put the SSD into the Lenovo and fire it up or do I need to find drivers or something first to preload on it?

You can use a free program (like Macrium Reflect) to clone the Lenovo drive to the SSD, using a USB to SATA cable, housing or dock. Once done, just replace the orig HD with the SSD.

 

[boing]

Yeah , going to go that route on reflection, thanks.