Question about my computer's hard drive?

[Jess W]

You cannot hurt the replacement computer by trying to swap the hard drives. And if it is a an identical model then it should work. Even in the identical make and models they would have a different machine id, but I do not believe Operating Systems utilize this. Machine ID's are mainly for scanned images, pictures and other media that is produced on a particular machine, this is so it could be traced to a particular computer. However people have to have new motherboards and cpus installed all the time, you would essentially be doing the same thing. Good Luck! and let me know how it worked.

p.s. it wouldn't hurt to try the replacement drive in your old computer either.