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Cloning your PC hard drive to your laptop - Yes it's possible!
Just want to share a trick that may interest some. Let's say you have better things to do than spend your time installing and tweaking software on your new laptop or desktop. Here is what you do. Make sure your laptop and desktop computer are from the same manufacturer and use the same processor.
For instance, my PC has an ASUS motherboard (obviously it's the motherboard that counts) and i5 processor. Same goes for my laptop.
This gives you a very good chance that they actually need more or less the same manufacturer drivers to boot up.
So you open the laptop and remove the hard drive. It's very simply and needs no skills. Just unscrew the screws at the back - the rest is self explanatory.
Hook this hard drive into your desktop PC and clone your C drive onto the laptop drive. If you don't want to risk losing whatever you already have on the drive, just the drive of some old discarded laptop or clone over the content somewhere else so you can restore it later if you want. Another trick is to check whether you can boot the PC from the laptop drive. That's also a good indication they are compatible.
Once you cloned the PC C: drive to the laptop drive, pop it in and see if you can boot.
For me, I've done this trick twice with two laptops. Both were Asus. It's worked fine. You can also clone laptop drive to PC which I did after a hardware failure. If you cloned PC to laptop, first thing to do on the laptop is to head over to the Laptop manufacturer's home page and download the drivers for that laptop and install it to make sure all the hardware will work as expected.
Some licenses may have to be re-entered.
Et voila you saved yourself hours or days of boring installations and configuration just by staying loyal to the same brand with both PC and laptop.
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