Very basic question about reusing hard drives

[peter]

My home pc has just 'died" as the motherboard blew and I took out the
hard drive to copy the data. My pc at work is old and has a small hard
drive - could i put the hard drive from the 'dead' pc into my work pc?
both ran on window xp.

Peter

 

[peter]

You can take the drive from your home computer
and connect it as a second drive...to your work computer..
but you cannot simply pop the old drive in your work computer
and expect the system to work...

you'd have to use cloning software etc

Oh well. Nice try