[aclug-L] Re: Moving Harddrives Between Computers + Linux on Compaq

["David Carmichael" <dec29111@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have moved Win'95/98 between harddrives with no trouble, but I have never
moved it between different motherboards.

I tried to install Linux on my Compaq when I first got it, but the BIOS
utility on the boot drive kept getting in the way.. but somebody else told
me that once I had the hardware set in BIOS I could write over this sector
of the harddrive and or create a BIOS disk.. but I have not had any luck on
creating this disk, because the disk that I end up creating keeps wanting to
write itself back to the harddrive after I have installed LINUX and LILO.
Does anybody know if a program like PARTATION MAGIC (like packaged with
MANDRAKE 6.5) will allow for this utility??



DECarmichael


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Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 9:43 AM
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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Moving Harddrives Between Computers + Linux on
Compaq


On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, David Carmichael wrote:

> (1) Does anybody here have any luck on moving a harddrive fully loaded
with
> Win'98SE your software from one computer system to an other. The hardware
is
> totally different.

Last time I tried this (upgraded the motherboard) Windows freaked out and
I never got it back in working order... I had to reinstall.  Windows has
little drivers for every darn thing on the board it seems and uses
different ones for different boards.

I'm facing this problem at work... I have a P100 and it needs upgraded.
They've decided to upgrade it instead of replace it (usually a good idea,
IMO) but that takes four to six weeks to send it off to our hardware
department. (They're backlogged with Y2K-required upgrades... everyone has
to have a minimum of a P200 to run some Y2K compliant versions of MS
Outlook and Office.)  So we have this spare P200 (with Solaris installed)
that I'm supposed to transfer my harddrive to in the meantime... except
that it's going to trash Windows and have to be reinstalled.  And then
when I get my new hardware, I'm going to have to do it again.  And I don't
have all the install media... I have to send it off to IS to get
everything installed.

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Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
You can tell the nature of a man by the words he chooses.
   -Dr. Ed Cole