Transferring internal and optical drives?

Hi all,
I have an older MacBook Pro 2,2 (Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.33GHz, 3 GB RAM) which has small internal drive and an optical drive that is starting to become buggy.
I have access to a more recent MacBook Pro 4,1 (Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM) which has a much larger internal drive and a working optical drive.
What I want to know is, can I swap my current internal drive and optical drive for the other MacBook Pro's?
The execution of the two procedures does not bother me as I have some experience doing tech work on laptops. Just want to find out if this is a doable thing.
thanks in advance,
J

The hard drive maybe, the optical drive no due to DVD copy protection schemes requiring a tie in with original hardware.
You will have to erase the hard drive and reverse clone or reinstall OS X as the hardware drivers are incompatible in most cases.
Older computers usually have older SATA connections, so it doesn't make sense to switch hard drives between models of varying years.
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