Old drive put into new Mac - all gone a bit wrong.

Hi there,
the scenario -
2 Macs - one Macbook Pro 15", one Macbook Pro 13" - the 13" is the newer of the two. We (I) was advised that I could simply swap hard drives (both 500 GB sata drives) and place the older drive into the newer 13" Macbook Pro. So i did...
When it moved, i started up the 13" and it didn't recognise any data, nor had a login, and wanted to start from scratch. Ok, i thought, so i can't do it after all and placed the hard drive back in the older 15" Macbook Pro.
Now, when i come to book the older 15" up, it isn't how it was and has lost it's bootable info, but can still understand (from looking in Disk Utlility) that it has OSX installed on it.
My Question:
Is there a way i can make the old (ex-working) drive in the 15" Macbook Pro, bootable and back to the stage where it works again, in that 15" MBP? i.e. as it was before i started the task?
Thanks in advance.
Ivan

Hi OGELTHORP,
Thanks for the email and reply,
I have been advised by the person using the mac, not to worry about the information required in the email sent to me on the back on the problem.
(Interestingly information that was asked in the email didn't appear on the website when i entered my serial number in, purely because we've not actually used the new 13" MBP at all yet. The only thing that came up was MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)) and the serial number. It also had the eligiblity information and support info, but nothing that would show the exact model or OSX version.
The 15" MBP info as follows: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) and the serial number, but doesn't contain an exact model number nor information on what OSX was currently installed.
I presume as i read Mavericks in the about this mac, the other day, this is what he is running on the 15" MBP.
So, im still in the same position, but we are simply putting the brand new drive back into the new 13" MBP and running it's installation procedure and will restore his data from a backup we made previously.
But for peace of mind, and problem solving purposes couild we continue down th route of working out why, or whether i could get back up and running on the older MBP ?

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