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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No, I wouldn't try to install the Levovo drive into the DELL as a OS system drive. You'll most likely blue-screen(BSOD) due to different hardware drivers. Doing a forced system repair may correct driver issues and allow you to boot, but MS will deactivate WIN 7 as it will detect the MB change from the registered hardware profile when WIN 7 was activated. It likely won't even work if you reinstalled it back into the Lenovo, without calling MS support.
MS allows some hardware changes, but definitely not the motherboard from a completely different manufacturer. Which is considered a new system requiring a separate WIN 7 license.
You can, however, retrieve your old files.
MS allows some hardware changes, but definitely not the motherboard from a completely different manufacturer. Which is considered a new system requiring a separate WIN 7 license.
You can, however, retrieve your old files.
