Possible to put in harddrive from a macbook pro?

Hi,
I'm selling my macbook pro. I upgraded the harddrive in it to a 320 gb harddrive, and I was wondering if it would be possible to simply take that harddrive, as is, and place it into a macbook. Would it have the drivers, etc?
Thanks!

Physically it should fit and be compatible. My guess is that it will probably boot, but could result in strange things with the drivers. Some people here have tried swapping the drive from an older MacBook to a newer Macbook, with strange results.

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