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First of all Im a kid so dont be too much of a dick if im wrong.

So I have a laptop that doesnt support windows 11 but I have one that does.

Am i able to switch the m.2 drive from the windows 11 supported laptop to the unsupported laptop?

Can I use it like normal?

Please let me know!

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As long as you reformat it properly it should work perfect.

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8 minutes ago, mrekk said:

yes you should be able to, i use a drive from a windows 7 pc on windows 10 and it works fine. just once you move the drive, delete the system files then reformat it.

 

3 minutes ago, xxx.sps said:

As long as you reformat it properly it should work perfect.

And then still not have Windows 11 making the swap useless

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You don't need to swap. Try this. It's always best to install Windows directly on the system you plan running it on. But if you want to swap it from the other system it should work too, but I recommend installing Windows 10 and doing what the video says.

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