Boot laptop drive clone on desktop

My laptop (Toshiba m115 s3094) died on me. Before I sent it out for repair, I ghosted its hard-drive. Then I recovered that ghost image to a new hard drive. I want to put this new hard drive and boot with it, so that when I start my computer its just like my laptop. I understand the ghosted drive had drivers for the toshiba laptop, but

is there any outside chance (with errors) that I could bootup a (dell dimensions 4600) with this new hard drive?

if not, then any ideas how I could get all my files setup exactly on the desktop as they were in my laptop?

Thanks

edit: the original os was WINDOWS XP MCE

Its quite possible. I recently upgraded a computer(Win XP MCE 05) from an athlon XP chipset to an Athlon socket 939 chipset, new ram, and new gfx card. After several reboots the mouse & keyboard finally started working(both USB) and I was able to get into windows to do some configuring.

This was mainly just an experiment, stamped it with the superior Vista right after.

-DW