On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:34:35 -0700, WCJ wrote:

> I'm using Ubuntu Feisty, and I have a laptop that I think I'm going to
> have replaced with a new one (because it died at 3 months old, and I'm
> in California...yay for lemon laws!), and I want to put its hard drive
> into the new laptop. But I'm unsure of what will happen and/or anything
> special I need to do to make this work, because I've never done this before.
>
> The current laptop dual boots Feisty and windoze, but I never actually
> boot into 'doze [and really don't care about losing its partition. It's
> Vista, by the way]. Ideally, I'd just like to pop the existing hard
> drive from laptop #1 into laptop #2, turn the power on, and be up and
> running. Will that happen? What about my grub menu?
>
> What, if anything, will I need to do to be back up and running?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.

As long as the hardware is very similar - like the same model - there
should really be no problem with Linux. MS, on the other hand, will throw
fits.