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| Thread ID: 75984 | 2007-01-17 00:14:00 | question about swapping HDDs | kingping (11473) | Press F1 |
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| 516646 | 2007-01-17 00:14:00 | if i took out my HDD and shoved it in another computer will the computer auto boot up and load all the stuff that was in my previous computer eg. my OS, all my installed stuff? cheers |
kingping (11473) | ||
| 516647 | 2007-01-17 00:27:00 | Bad, bad idea if you're running Windows. While Linux can often get away with it fine (or with only limited graphics driver problems) - in Windows that's just asking for disaster. You will end up in driver hell. It's far better to reinstall if you are moving the HDD to another PC, unless the motherboards are completely identical, including the hardware revision. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 516648 | 2007-01-17 00:29:00 | Bad, bad idea if you're running Windows. While Linux can often get away with it fine (or with only limited graphics driver problems) - in Windows that's just asking for disaster. You will end up in driver hell. It's far better to reinstall if you are moving the HDD to another PC, unless the motherboards are completely identical, including the hardware revision. I agree completely. I tried it once, and all i managed to do was COMPLETELY kill all my data. So yeah... bad idea |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 516649 | 2007-01-17 00:51:00 | oh snap, lucky i posted this thread, i was gona just do a swap into another comp... guess ill just have to reinstall everything. | kingping (11473) | ||
| 516650 | 2007-01-17 00:55:00 | guess ill just have to reinstall everything.Unfortunately yes. Just out of curiosity, what is the situation you have at the moment, and the intended outcome? |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 516651 | 2007-01-17 01:03:00 | well i got a spare decent gaming computer from my buddy to use until i finish building my own rig. meanwhile i have around 20-30 games installed on my old pc (HDD) and i want to move them to the new PC. the thing is that i am missing ALOT of installations CDs and CDKs because after i install them games/softwares i chuck my CDs into the abyss and crack/discimage all my stuff. and now its creating such a big problem for me. oh well guess i learned my lesson. | kingping (11473) | ||
| 516652 | 2007-01-17 01:14:00 | just another quick question, how may i extract data from this HDD? can i plug it in as a portable HDD via USB? | kingping (11473) | ||
| 516653 | 2007-01-17 01:38:00 | The easiest way would be to plug the old drive into the new computer as a slave (via IDE/SATA), in addition to its own HDD. Then it should simply appear as another drive letter and you can copy your data off it. If you wish you can plug it in via USB, but you will need either a HDD caddy or an IDE/SATA>>USB adaptor to do this. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 516654 | 2007-01-17 04:34:00 | yea i have an 250GB portable HDD i can use the IDE adapter off that i hope | kingping (11473) | ||
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