Re: [PCTECH] Re: Another topic about PC hard drives

[daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

That might explain a thing or two but then again wouldn't those components
fall under the plug-n-play category?  If so, I would think that Windows
would recognize the new components and attempt to install the correct
drivers?  I'm not so sure about the CPU and BIOS but this topic isn't
really about them.  Shouldn't it be able boot and get Windows started even
if everything didn't work quite right?


Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



                                                                                
                              
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daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is anybody aware of any reason why you shouldn't be able to partition,
> format, and install Windows on a hard drive that's in one PC, pull it out
> and stick it into another PC.  It sticks in my mind from about ten years
> ago that was a bad idea due to different BIOS's interpreted the number of
> cylinders, sectors, etc.

It's always been my experience that this would only work if the two
systems you are moving the drive between are identical.

Windows installs drivers for the cpu, power management, bios, interface
cards, video, network, etc, that are specific to the system it's being
installed on.

I have heard that it's possible to strip windows down to the absolute
bare minimum by uninstalling all drivers before moving the drive ... but
I wouldn't bet the farm on that.

Linux, on the other hand, will generally move from system to system
without a single problem.  I've upgraded the hardware on the
midrange.com system many times without making any modifications to the
software.  I just move the hard drives, boot the system, it notices the
configuration change, and starts asking me configuring the new hardware
and unconfiguring the old.

david
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