Computer question

[Barnacle Bill]

I have 2 HP Pavilions. One has a 500 gig hard drive and the other 1 terabyte hard drive. Can those drives be swapped? Both are running Win 7.

[J_ROW]

BB

You can swap them out but chances are when you do you have to call microsoft and reactivate the windows 7. Other than that they should work just fine.

[Hanr3]

I have 2 HP Pavilions. One has a 500 gig hard drive and the other 1 terabyte hard drive. Can those drives be swapped? Both are running Win 7.

You have a 2 hp motor attached to your pavilion? No wonder its a hard drive.

[backtocrappie]

Bill, I'm curious how this turned out because I'm wondering if matching hardware configs were even picked up by your OS.

[Superx10]

Are you trying to swap or add additional storage? Adding would not cause any real additional work. Replacing would require some work.

[Barnacle Bill]

I haven't done anything with them yet. I'm still working on getting my new one on line. I think what I can do is just swap graphic cards as that is what is wrong with mine and then use the easy transfer tool. That way she will wind up with a one TB drive instead of the 500 gig she now has.

[CharlieL]

Never saw a PC yet that had to be programmed because you put a new hard drive in that was already loaded with Operating system. windows weill note the differences in the PC and apply settings that are for the machine it is in.