Is Lenovo drive interchangeable with Dell?
The wife's Lenovo U530 laptop had a hinge freeze which disabled the computer. Removed the hard drive before sending it in for repair. Lenovo decided to refund our purchase price because the parts were...
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AsheGuy wrote:travisc wrote:I agree, it's worth a try. Drivers can be downloaded and fixed. The Windows activation is the biggest issue probably as the change of hardware will key an activation request. A call to Microsoft will get one around a change of HD but maybe not a change of computer. But the worst that can happen is that it cannot be worked out.
You should plug it in and try to boot it odds it will work depending on hardware generations it won't affect your data on there and should only a few screws. Windows activation may come up but it may work. This is from some one who spends lots of times on pc's
Don't tell them you switched computers or motherboards, just tell them you swapped the hard drive. Small changes in HW configuration don't trigger the need for a new key from Microsoft and if you make small changes over time you can get past the need for a new key. But if you make a lot of HW changes all at once it will trigger the need to call Microsoft. So if you tell them you upgraded the disk, CDROM, memory, ethernet, monitor, keyboard, etc they're OK with that. But if you tell them you swapped the computer or motherboard they'll want to sell you a new license. And nowdays they'll want to get you upgraded to Win 10.
