On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > 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.
I don't know about 7 (or vista), but I have seen it work on XP, actually. And I have seen it not work, due to APIC vs PIC HALs, and I have repaired it. Manual HAL surgery is more trouble than reinstalling as I remember it, but it can be done, if you want to for some reason. SysPrep can take care of it also, when cloning... Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- 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/CAFoWM=8Ohk1jVi0debTui8uWGBs=AZqHC_jP4+P=lfl21i7...@mail.gmail.com
