×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
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
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact
[javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
