Ok, I threw caution to the wind lol. Once I put my hd in her laptop and powered it up it said something about a cable not connected then said I needed a boot disc. Back to square one lol. on the...

ok, thanks Bree you are correct then if xp did not qualify then we must have had 7. We both did the upgrades the same way as I remember. Is there any reason they wouldn't have been? These are both...

Thank You all for your help. Yes, I am running windows 10. We both bought our laptops when they had xp so we did the free windows 10 upgrade. From what you are saying I can just swap the hard drives...

Here is the situation My wife has a Toshiba laptop that crashed, the hard drive is done. I have done everything that I have been able to looking at tutorials etc to revive it, its dead jim. I even...