"Transplanting" a hard disk of Pavilion dv9700-dv9808eg to a dv 9850es

There are many different submodels of the HP Pavilion dv9700 series (17" laptop). Mine is a dv9850es submodel but the video chip died from overheating. Repair is expensive but I found a 2nd hand dv9805eg model that has pretty much the same specifications, except that the hard drive has 200Gb whils mine has a 320 Gb one. I thought I could buy it and replace the hard drive by my origional hard drive and hopefully have cloned my old computer. This would save me a lotof time installing software etc andI would have a higher capacity drive. My question is ifit will work wothout hassles. What about the BIOS and hardware drivers for example?

Hi:
Looking at the specs, it looks like it would boot right up.
The BIOS should have no effect on the hard drive.
You may be in a very dark gray area regarding the legality of what you want to do with regard to transferring a hard drive from one PC to another with a MS OEM operating system where the licensing specifically states that you cannot move an OEM OS from one PC to another--even if it is Vista Home to Vista Home.
http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_faq.aspx#fbid=dKsxhMSaz-L
Q. My customer bought a new PC and wants to move the OEM software from the old PC to the new one. Can't users do whatever they want with their software?
A. No, the OEM software is licensed with the computer system on which it was originally installed and is tied to that original machine. OEM licenses are single-use licenses that cannot be installed on more than one computer system, even if the original machine is no longer in use. The End User Software License Terms, which the end user must accept before using the software, state that the license may not be shared, transferred to, or used concurrently on different computers. System builders must provide end-user support for the Windows license on computers they build, but cannot support licenses on computers they didn’t build. This is a fundamental reason why OEM System Builder licenses can't be transferred.

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