If you plan on long-term use of the working Vostro 1400, install the drivers, of course.

One does not necessarily have to use a system with the same model to resurrect data, provided one has the right tools at hand... Ben

On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 4:32:28 PM UTC-5, Ron Hardin wrote:
I swapped a HD from a failed Vostro 1400 into a
working (but slower) Vostro 1400 and it worked
okay, thinking it was the failed machine.

Except found new hardware comes up on boot, which
I just cancel.

I needed the failed machine to resurrect with its
data, is the reason for the swap.
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