Putting old MBP drive in new MBP

I have a new 13" MBP(November 2010) and an "old" 13" MBP(summer 2009). The old MBP died and I swapped out the drive to the new computer. There appears to be no problem with it residing now in the new computer. The OS was up to date on the old computer. I read a recent post where this question came up with a person swapping an old MB drive into a new MBP. The poster was advised not to do it. What is the wisdom in the case of a MBP to MBP swap? Thanks!

David McQ wrote:
Thank you for your quick and thorough reply, Dale.
You are welcome!
Of course things are never quite as simple as the question. I would have taken the suggested course of action but for the fact that: (1)The "old" drive has 400GB+ data on it and the new drive is 320GB,
Oh, I see!
(2) I need it operational and ready to go when I leave for an extended trip outside of the US on Tuesday, meaning I can't buy more drives nor spend a ton of time with this project.
You might be able to get away with that for awhile.
I am a little annoyed that my old MBP decided to die at this time
What happened to it?
The OS X version was the same on both drives, by the way. I should have indicated 10.6.5 in my original post.
Yes, but it is still possible there could be things missing, in the OS on the old drive, the the new Mac needs thereby causing issues.
Of course now I have been using the old drive in the new MBP and have done some updating, as well. Not sure how that plays into it all.
Well, I would download and install the 10.6.5 Combo update then if you used the delta update supplied by Software Update. You can install it right over what you have now.
You'll have better results with the Combo under these circumstances.
Then maybe you can do the fresh install the right way when you get back.
DALE

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