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I had this happen and I have had to use it a couple of times now
I order the new machine with the os installed on the new drive with all the
new hardware installed. A regular machine
Then you dig out and read your original harddrive booklet to see how to set
the jumper on the old drive to be a slave drive . Open the new machine and
install the old drive with the jumpers set to slave.
Restart and the machine should just see the drive and assign it drive
numbers and treat it as a see only drive . Sometimes you need to fiddle with
the bios.
Then just it is just a matter of point ,copy from the programs file and
paste in the programs to the new drive in the new programs dir and reinstall
with the original
disks.
Plus you have a built in backup or a ton of extra room ,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: OT - off topic - hard drive swap
> Cameron,
>
> >What would happen if i had a harddrive called c: with everything on it ,
and
> >then i put it straight into another box with a different motherboard and
> >cpu?
>
> This essentially happened to me when my motherboard burned up one day.
> I installed a new motherboard, and Windows refused to boot, insinuating
> that it was a bootleg copy installed on another machine.
>
> In other words Windows will give you problems. Microsoft supposedly
> has a way to recover if you're a legitimate customer, but I found it
> easier to re-install Windows.
>
> Fortunately I partition my hard drive (which I highly recommend, and
> which you will probably figure out would have been a good idea),
> and I *never* keep any of my own work, projects, or data on the
> C: partition. All that's on the C partition are the OS and my
> applications, which I can easily re-install if I reformat the C
> partition.
>
> >Just wanted to know , would it run or would it run bad , or wouldnt it
run
> >at all?
>
> Wouldn't run at all.
>
> --
> ,|___ Alex Matulich -- alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> // +__> Director of Research and Development
> // \
> // __) Unicorn Research Corporation -- http://unicorn.us.com
>
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