Portege M400 swapping HD from XP to Vista

I have two Portege units, one with XP Pro and one with Vista. The XP unit is giving me problems so I would like to put the hard drive in the unit the unit that has a Vista drive in it. The user does not want to use Vista. When I make the swap, the XP drive will not boot up in the machine that had the Vista drive. Any suggestions as to why this will not boot up? BIOS settings?

Hi,
just a little question: did you already installed the Vista compatible BIOS on your machine?? Its one of the most important steps before installing the "wonderful" Vista on your harddisk (I cannot understand why you need it but OK its your machine... ;) )
If not already did, go to the Toshiba Driver Download site and download the latest BIOS for machine (Vista compatible) which is absolutely essential if you decided to put Windows Vista on your machine.
Heres the link:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp
Would appreciate any feedback from you regarding your situation.
Greetings

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Hi there,
I have the same laptop. Bought it from a friend also! That was a year ago. It was working perfectly till 6 months ago when I had it going 100% like yours. Screen freezes, fan speeds up and hangs up once it is moved. Recently, even if it doesnt move it hangs up also. I have tried many things like reinstalling drivers and Windows.....etc.
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> {quote:title=Jaba wrote:}{quote}
> That??s nothing unusual!
> That??s a 32bit limitation. All 32bit operating systems (no matter if it's Vista, XP or Linux) can handle max 3.2GB.
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