HD here means hard disk.
I am a complete beginner at messing around inside computers. But I have a computer with a hard disk with Windows XP installed on it. It uses an Intel Celeron Single-Core Processor. I have another PC that I want to put this HD into which uses an Intelsingle core Pentium III. (yes these are old computers)
Assuming both motherboards have the same ports (is that the right word?) for the hard disk, is it a simple process to take out the hard disk from PC A, plop it into PC B, start up and run?
Answer
You can always take an existing hard disk and put it into another machine. To do that, just unplug the power and data connection from the disk, and plug it into the other machine.
If both machines are the same age, chances are good you have the same connection type for the hard drive. Judging from your post it seems like that's okay. If they aren't, you won't be able to just plug in a new drive into an old machine and vice versa, that's because hard disks now mostly use SATA which isn't available on old motherboards that still use IDE/PATA.
But: You won't just be able to run the existing operating system if the hardware specifications are not the same. That's because your installation has specific drivers for your hardware which don't work out of the box for other hardware.
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