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

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl D Cravens wrote:

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

I have succeeded at work.  You will need the install disk, as window$ will whine
and cry about being transplanted, and will want to install new drivers.  If you
do not have the install disk, it will crash.   If you do have the disk(same one
used for install) just run the install new hardware, and windows will do the
rest.  Worst case, Just put the cd in and run [cd-drive]:\setup.exe  This will
re-install windows.  But, window$ may see your entire hard drive.  When I first
installed, I re-installed windows, and it overwrote my Linux, so I made a d 
drive
partition on my hard drive Window$ was happy to consume the drive as a virtual
drive.  AS soon as Win95 was on line, I took d drive and partitioned it for 
linux
and installed linux.  Windows never cought on!  It assumed the drive was removed
from the computer, and happily removed it from "my computer"  THey have lived
happily ever after!

Mike