Swap SSD between 2 laptops

[Don1]

Is is possible to swap SSD's (both have Win 10 64 bit loaded) between 2 dissimilar laptops or must they first formatted?

Thanks

 

[thehuman]

You will have problems with re activating windows 10 , re formatting would be better

 

[Arthur]

Each Windows installation has its own SID. Furthermore, the low-level drivers (such as storage controller) below the NT Executive differ from machine to machine. You can't just swap drives in dissimilar hardware and expect the systems to boot up.

There are workarounds, but you need to know your stuff.

Also, Acronis Universal Restore will restore a system image (made with Acronis Backup) to dissimilar hardware, on both Win servers and wkstns.

 

[ponder]

In windows nope, if it was linux yip. Either way I would do a fresh install.