Is it possible to clone a hard drive from one laptop brand and use on another brand?

This is a weird question. I plan to buy a brand new 64 bit Win7 PC. Would like to clone the hard drive BEFORE it is booted up for the 1st time. I currently have 32 bit XP PC's with 32 bit cloning software (not Win7 compatible) called Casper XP. I was wondering if I could remove from new PC...

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I want to make a clone of my hard drive that is going out (getting noisy) but still working. I'd like this to be as simple as possible, so I can just make the clone and swap the drives, and be done. I've heard a lot about how great Acronis True Image is, so I bought it. Not opened yet. ...

I have an old Dell Dimension with XP SP2. My wife basically uses it for email and surfing. It still has the original small 40GB hard drive, which I think is acting up. Every few days at boot up, it goes to a black screen saying to hit F1 to boot, instead of going to Windows. F1 does nothing, but...

My boss has bought 6 new pc's and has asked me to install both commercial software and our own customised accounting software on each system. He wants every pc to be identical. I put everything on the first machine today and it took me around 2 to 3 hours. My nephew said that what I...