Swapping hard drive

[Peter drg]

My ideapad running mint won't charge. I have a Thinkpad coming with a 500gb hdd. The thinkpad has win10 on it. The. Ideapad has 1tb.

How practical is it to swap the hdds please? I have the manual so could physically swap them but I'm wondering what the other implications might be. 

TIA

[aDoomGuy]

Drivers may cause the PC to crash. Why don't you just install Mint to the new PC?

[Peter drg]

Thanks for responding. The new Thinkpad is only 500gb. The dead Ideapad uses most of 1tb.

I could put Mint onto the new thinkpad but I still need most of the data off the 1tb drive. 

The new Thinkpad is a gift. If I'd been buying one I'd have bought one with 1tb already on it.