On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:06:51 -0800 Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dennis Wicks <w...@mgssub.com> wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE > > controller is bad. > > > > Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? > > I have a vague recollection that this caused problems back > > when I was running MS/DOS, but not sure. Is it OK today? > <snip> > > Now, Windows still has some issues with that (if booting), due to the > the NT HAL...but even there it should* be possible as long as stay on > the same brand (Intel/AMD) on relatively modern systems (say, x86-64 > era) > > * I have not tested this. Not responsible if it lets the magic smoke > out of your computer :-) > Not for some time. Many years ago, I had a triple-boot Windows machine, and moved the drives into new hardware: NT4.0 complained of a non-working network card, fixed by a new driver. Apart from that, it didn't even notice that it had a new home. Win98 asked for its CD and rebooted about a dozen times, but eventually staggered to its feet and ran reliably. XP got reinstalled. Nothing at all could I do to get it running again. It was a retail version, there was no license issue, it had just committed itself so thoroughly to the initial hardware that it would not boot at all. I'd guess that nothing since XP will boot into new hardware. It does take a bit of effort to design a boot process that will check for new hardware and still manage to boot into wherever it finds itself. Once Microsoft had committed to requiring reactivation if more than very small hardware changes had been made, presumably it made no sense to continue this effort. OEM Windows versions, if anyone isn't aware of this, are tied to the computer they are sold with, and the license does not permit reinstalling into a different one (or virtualising, usually). If the motherboard dies and the model is no longer on sale, the OS is dead as well. For servers, you buy retail, and preferably virtualise. Restoring an image backup of a base OS to different hardware is a real pain the the rear. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121130212959.2cadd...@jretrading.com
