Can I swap hardrives between 2 IBM T40 Thinkpads?

[spectr17]

In need to send my IBM Thinkpad T40 in for some repair, the one USB port is munched from travel abuse and the USB hub isn't cutting it. I want to buy a 2nd backup T40 and just pop my current good hard drive into the spare good T40.

My current T40 is running W2K and no problems with the drive. Can I just plug that drive into the spare T40 and it will run the W2K with no issues on booting, bios, partitions etc. I have 3 partitions on my T40 drive now.

Current drive is a 40 gig. PRocessor is 1.5mhz. Ram is 512 for current and new spare can be 512 or 756.

If not do I Ghost my drive onto the new spare drive?

Can a repair center fix my T40 without the hard drive in it?

THanks.

 

[fbrdphreak]

You can swap HDD's easily as long as the hardware is the same. Really as long as your motherboard/chipset is the same it should be fine. You can even swap HDD's with diff mobo's, but it requires a lot of finagling.

 

[spectr17]

THanks fbrdphreak. Got me another T40 for backup coming.