RE: IXS, IXA and DR

["Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you can generally migrate a PC hard drive from machine to machine.
Upon booting in the new PC, Windows will detect the new motherboard and
installed options and load drivers for them.  In general you'd tell
Windows to load the drivers from the motherboard maker; otherwise it may
use un-optimized generic drivers for motherboard resources.  I've
swapped motherboards numerous times without having to reinstall Windows.
Granted, the cleanest system would involve a re-install, but it's not
absolutely necessary.

-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IXS, IXA and DR

<snip>
 Forgive me some lack of PC knowledge but could you take the only disk 
drive out of a P2 and replace the only disk drive on a P3 with it and 
expect it to work?

The ability to upgrade this easily is a request we have submitted to
IBM. 
No word back was given.

Rob Berendt
-- 
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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