Is There A Way To Swap A Hdd From A Gateway Lt To A Dell Lt?

1st I had a left hinge issue with my NE56r31u Gateway LT. Pulled the keyboard connector off the motherboard taking it apart. Bought a second Gateway so I could put my HDD in it w/o any hassle...SO swapped out a cracked screen and the harddrive w/o incidence. The second Gateway worked like a champ. It had Win8 and 4GB of ram. Decided to do a system image (15 DVDs) and completed it the next morning. Came back from work that day, did a System Repair DVD and shut it down. It wouldn't boot up after that. I wondered if the HDD coincidently went bad after finishing the System Image so I put the original HDD back in. It still wouldn't boot up!

SO I am now wanting to put the HDD into a Dell Latitude e6410. It originally had Vista Basic on it. It has 8GB of ram. I have tried using the Win8 Repair Disc and nothing happened. It did the same as attempting to boot the HDD. It goes through the BIOS program then goes to a black screen with a white dash blinking in the top left corner.

Thought it could be a Brand issue so I used a Dell Win7 Repair disc. This time it began working actually and had the Windows loading bar at the bottom of the screen. The Windows page showed up and then immediately went to a black screen with the warning that it was not compatible with the operating system on the hdd.

I have also tried changing the booting from Legecy to UEFI and back with no success. Is there a way of getting this to work? Any assistance would be appreciated!!!

 

I somehow got the answer to the question after reading all of "Black Screen, White cursor" thread. It won't boot in Legacy, only EUFI (which doesn't look right). There wasn't anything to choose after choosing EUFI. There was, however, a button saying to add another path. Clicked on it and added SATA 0X0. Rebooted and there was another option EUFI named SATA 0x0 on the BIOS screen. Chose SATA 0x0 and it booted right up. SO the issue is resolved