Dell Laptop and Mac Mini HD swap?

I've got myself a Mac mini Intel, 60 gig hard drive in it running on empty and I've also got a Dell Inspirion 6400 Laptop and was wondering if it is at all possible to swap the two? Anybody know?

They both use SATA hard drives, so chances are very high that you could swap the drives over successfully. Of course, you may need to repartition, and would nee to reformat and reinstall both with the correct operating system, and you would loose functionality of the recovery partition (if it has one) on the Dell's hard drive once it was not longer in the Dell, and have no easy way to put a similar recovery partition on the mini's hard drive once it's in the Dell - which would make recovering that system rather problematic if it needs it and you don't have complete reinstall disks.
All in all, unless money was a real problem, I'd be more inclined to buy a larger (and possibly faster) hard drive for the mini. http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Criteria=SATA%202%2E5%20Hard%20Disk% 20Drive&sort=a is a good place to check out the options, with the 7200rpm drives being particularly notable for the potential performance benefits to the system as a whole.

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