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Seenal, thanks, I have tried fitting the old disk into the new laptop and it runs okay except that I need to update a few drivers.
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Seenal, thanks, I have tried fitting the old disk into the new laptop and it runs okay except that I need to update a few drivers.

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Is it possible to use a hard drive from an old Vista laptop (dead due to hardware problem) in place of the one from a new Windows 7 laptop? The new one is a Toshiba L450-18D; the old one is a Toshiba A200-1YO. The old drive is 160Gb and the new one is 250Gb.<br />
The reason for wanting to do this is compatibility of existing Sage software and an improtant business meeting on Wednesday (i.e. may not have time to set up Sage under Windows 7 in time for meeting).
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Is it possible to use a hard drive from an old Vista laptop (dead due to hardware problem) in place of the one from a new Windows 7 laptop? The new one is a Toshiba L450-18D; the old one is a Toshiba A200-1YO. The old drive is 160Gb and the new one is 250Gb.
The reason for wanting to do this is compatibility of existing Sage software and an improtant business meeting on Wednesday (i.e. may not have time to set up Sage under Windows 7 in time for meeting).

Hard drive from old laptop on new laptop?

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