Transfering A HD with preisntall Vista to another Thinkpad

[WizardNYC]

Hi,

I recently purchase a Thinkpad t42 which has a legit windows vista business install, And I want to transfer the hard drive with windows vista to another t42 which I have, and then install back windows xp to the other one.

I need to know if this will work

PS: If i want to start over on the laptop which i want to windows vista, could i use the key again on it, and if I don't have the windows vista cd is there anyways to get it and use the key of my legit windows vista HD.

Thanks

[tyanlion]

It will work as long as the motherboards are the same. thats the only thing xp is picky abt . btw u can download a software called transxp that will transfer your operating system to another hd. its shareware but works for 15 days

[skanky]

im pretty sure it wont work and require reactivation but you could try ghost the vista hdd onto the other t42?

[WizardNYC]

Thanks guys for your, posts

Well I just transfer the hard drive (phisical hd, not the contains inside of it), and it gave me a OS not found, then I don't know what happen I restarted it again and everything works great now

The MB was the same in terms of specs so I guess that's why

And I am able to get updates from microsoft so I dont think their an issue with that.



PS: I love vista, is faster, seems more reliable after using it for two days, although I need a better video card to use the real cool stuff, so good job microsoft

[syedj]

In my case I swapped hard drives from a 40GB to 80GB on a T41 using Ghost32.exe. So basically only the physical hard drive changed and the processor remained the same. I had to reactivate Vista Ultimate one more time from the 80GB drive. My guess would be the new hard drive signature spooked Vista's validation algorithm.