Installing Windows 7 on a Toshiba drive

I dropped my Toshiba laptop and it's dead (I've very sad about this). I pulled the hard drive out and put it into a Vaio laptop (the Vaio drive was toast).
The problem is the Vaio is for a Vista operationg system and I'm trying to install Windows 7 on the Toshiba hard drive in the Vaio (which was Win 8).
All the Disk 0 partitions are the wrong type or OEM or MS reserved.  I just thought it would be nice to have this work.  Is it possible?  Or should I just put them both on the driveway and run over them with my car and spare myself the agony?
TIA - 

The Vaio bios setting should be fine for windows 7. You would just have to format the entire drive to remove the windows 8 partitions then install your windows 7.
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