Upgrade from CF-30 to CF-31

First some background. I gifted a local homeless man with a CF-30 a number of years ago. I got it used very cheaply and it has served him well for 4-5 years and 16k hours. It has an SSD drive in it (I don't recall the size).

Unfortunately it is starting to fail. It has lived a very tough life and lives up to its name. I'm not sure if I want to recycle it, or mount it on the wall!

All that being said, I have decided to gift this man (and he is quite bright and doesn't do drugs) with a used CF-31. It is on the way here and should be arriving in the next 7-10 days.

Here is the question. It is running Windows 10 64 bit. If I pull the caddy out of the CF-30 and plug it into the CF-31 will it work? Will windows sort itself out and be happily ever after? Do I need to buy another SSD and set it all up and have him copy his data over?

Any tips or advice is welcome!

 

That is awesome, it should work, backup the disk prior to swapping. If it does not work you can put back in cf30 and run a sysprep generalize with shutdown. Then install in cf31.
It all depends how good you are with windows, probably have to reinstall some programs.

 

The big problem is the CF-30 video is starting to fail randomly. It took a couple of tries to get into the bios just to see how many hours it had on it. Now the bios thinks it is japanese! Sysprep, I'm going to have to look into that!

Thanks!

 

Hookup to an external monitor. When you 1st get into bios hit space bar to change language settings.

 

For those following, I replaced the CF-30 with a CF-31 on Thursday. I decided to give him a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit as he requested, 16g ram 256 ssd. He is a very happy man! I have pictures, but no way to put them on here. He wore a hole through two layers of the touch pad in 4 years!

Toughbooks are amazing!

 

He should be good to go then after the upgrade.

ever find out if it was the screen or the video failing?

 

Nope, I never even turned it on. It wasn't really worth the time to diagnose. Judging by what I saw, the video failed if you opened the screen fully. At 1/2 open it would work, and then that eventually failed too. I'd put it down to ribbon cable failure. I pulled out anything of value and off to recycling it went!