RE: Another topic about PC hard drives

I think it is just the "Windows Install" that is the issue.

Sysprep as mentioned by somebody else might work for you and it is included
with WinXP Pro (at least on the OEM version).

Bob

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> Is this just the boot drive or any drive?  In the past I've taken boot
> drives from one system and put them in a 2nd system as a slave drive to
> copy some files off.  Still, that's not my preferred way of doing it if a
> network transfer is an option.  It all goes back to the subliminial
> paranoia of my originial question.
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> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
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> Dave,
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> This will NOT work unless the hardware in the 2 machines is exactly the
> same.  And I mean EXACT.  Down to installed in the same slots.
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> I've a lot of experience in this sort of thing as we create a ghost image
> of
> the servers we sell.  The hardware vendor has learned not to change
> ANYTHING
> without checking with us.
> 
> Bob
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> > 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.
> >
> > The reason that I ask because my sister-in-law and her husband had drive
> > problems in November.  They live in New York and I live in Indiana so I
> > was
> > trying to talk them through some things over the phone.  Since they had
> > backed up the family photos, to CD they just wanted Windows installed.
> > When she decided to come to the midwest for Christmas I told her to
> bring
> > the hard drive and their Windows XP CD.  I stuck it in my father-in-
> law's
> > PC (after disconnecting his drive), blew away the old partition, and
> > reinstalled.  Everything worked fine.  She took it home, her husband put
> > it
> > back in their case, and it wouldn't boot.  I do know that it's a single
> > drive system and the jumper is set correctly on the back of the drive.
> >
> > I know that it could be something like an incorrect BIOS setting, bad
> > cable, etc.  He seemed eager to go out and buy a new laptop to replace
> it
> > so I didn't pursue it.  We will be going to New York in March to visit
> > them
> > so I'll get a chance to see it for myself.  Both their PC and my
> > father-in-law's are Dells that are 2-3 years old.
> >
> > Dave Parnin
> > Nishikawa Standard Company
> > Topeka, IN  46571
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