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I am going to be moving a HDD from one computer to another identical one. Can I just switch out the hard drives, or will I have to dd the old one onto the one that is already in there?

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If the Motherboard has the same chipset then it will work.

Otherwise, apparently Acronis TrueImage has a setting that makes things work for a different motherboard chipset.

If you think about it philosophically, if two computers are identical, the hard drive won't know the difference will it. If you could put, even your heart, into an identical you, and your heart has a brain(but doesn't know location) it's not going to know the difference. In practice, the two computers might not be completely identical, e.g. different serial number on a device, but the motherboard is the same model(I assume given you say identical), and same model mbrd then obviously same chipset. It may be worth checking the MBRD model.

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