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    charmaine m Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Mar 29, 2010, 12:03 PM
    Can I swop like for like laptop hard drives
    I have 2 compaque presario cq61 laptops. One has a dodgy screen the other a dodgy hard drive. Can I just pop the good hard drive from the dodgy screen one into the other?
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    Mar 29, 2010, 09:02 PM

    If same models as you state, should not be an issue
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    Mar 30, 2010, 11:02 PM

    Go to the Compaq site and run your P/N on each. The biggest problem you can run into doing something like that is chipsets or architectures. Some companies have several hardware options for a single model number... the hardware needs to be exact, or pretty close to it.
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