Installing OS and then plug the hard drive in another computer

[KaFir]

Hi,
First of all, I want to apologize for my English if it's not good, I'm from Sweden.
I'm just having a question...
My friends laptop is getting very warm, I think that he has damaged the CPU, got it overheated, by having the laptop in his bed... Anyway, he wanted me to reinstall XP, I tried but the laptop got so warm that it took 1 hour for the computer to just read in the files from the XP-CD. I tried and tried, but the computer just kept turning off because it got to hot, of course I waited for the computer to get cold first.
My question is now, do you think I can install XP on my laptop with his hard drive?, or will his laptop not identify it, because it got installed on my laptop,,, because it got installed with other hardware.
I'm going to try anyway, because I got so far that you can't start Windows anymore, so it's worth a try.

// KeFir

 

[lawson_jl]

You need to fix the problem with the laptop first. IF you install the OS on the drive in another computer and put it in the laptop it won't work unless you have the some motherboard in both computers. There are ways to get around this like Acronis True Image with Universal Restore. There are also some more complecated ways by deleting the mobo drivers first and a little bit of luck. I'd be a waste of time anyway. Since the laptop would have the same issues it has now.