Simple way to explain hard disk issue

Have a friend that has two Dell computers (only one hard drive in each),
each running WinXP. I'm having problems explaining to him that he can't just
remove an active bootable hard drive from one of the computers and install
the hard drive in the other computer to replace that computer's present hard
drive and it will boot up and 'work' with no problems. Both Dell's are the
*same* models (4700's - with 'same' brand motherboards). I've tried to tell
him the motherboards are really *not* completely the same (BIOS,etc.), and
therefore the hard drives are *not* interchangable from one to the other.

Can anyone give me a very simple explanation I can tell him, that he would
'kind of' understand? I can't seem to make it simple enough for him.

Thank you very much.

....Allen


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