Compaq nx 7300 hard drive salvage

I have recently fried the mobo on my nx7300 so I´m in the market for a new laptop, and I was wondering if the hdd is interchangeable with newer models. I have quite a lot of important data that I would like to salvage so I was thinking about a straight hdd swap with a new model. Bios and driver problems aside, is the old hdd physically interchangeable with a new machine? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
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The hard drive will work but as my colleague said, it may cause more troubles than good. I would keep it as a backup drive or something like that..
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