Windows 7 System Disk from W500 to W520 -- will it boot?

Hi All,
I have had a painfull time getting everthing "just right" on a W500.   I have a good stable Windows 7 fully patched image, and dont want to rebuild/reinstall on a W520 that I have to move to soon.   
Has anyone attempted to boot a W500 Windows 7 System Disk on a W520?  Does it work, or BSOD or Freeze?      I dont mind doing some driver tweaking....to make this work.   I would not like to reinstall my apps and get personalizations setup again from scratch.
Thanks for any help or pointers.
Jim

In case anyone see's this post, since nobody else replied -- here is all you need to do --  it worked for me perfectly.
1) Create clone of original W500 Win7 Enterprise Boot Disk  (I always have one anyways)
2) Insert disk in to W520, and boot from it
3) OS will fail to boot (verify this), and suggest doing a Repair from Original Windows Media
4) Keep install disk in W520, insert Win7 Original Media into CD/DVD Rom and boot from that
5) After giving localization --  click on Repair the Windows Installation.        Windows will look for and find valid Window installation and attempt to fix it.   The "fixing" process literally took about 1 second!
6) After fixing it, windows will boot....but all the drivers will be wrong/messed up -- no worries (it will be in VGA mode).   
7) Run Windows Update and let it do what can.....it will load lots of things...and ask for several reboots.  Keep running until nothing is left that is needed.
8) Make Sure Lenovo ThinkVantages Tools is loaded....and run a scan....it will pick up all the things that are missing for the W520 Laptop.
9) Windows 7 will insist on re-activation.....after these hardware changes...so you will need to do that too.    Just go into properties on the My Computer icon, and scroll down to the activate area (assuming you have a valid KMS server), otherwise you may need to call it in or use our keys.
Whole process (not including cloning the original disk), took only about 45min ....and went smoothly.   It saved me hours of painstaking reinstallation and customization. Windows7 has greatly improved for ability to move boot disks......much quicker than in XP

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