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Can I simply swap hard drives?
xmenxmen:
--- Quote from: Green Giant on September 24, 2007, 01:35:08 pm ---Don't know if I got here to late, but I have never had trouble with this. I have cleaned up friends computers in the past that had been so infected with viruses that they wouldn't run at all. I dropped their harddrives in my machines, much faster and capable of running with all the other junk running, and ran some stuff to clean it up.
I find you just wait a little while and windows will recognize just about everything. After I fixed their harddrives I just dropped it back in their machine, no problem. The only thing I could possibly see going wrong is if you have several game controllers hooked up getting reassigned different device id's. This isn't the darkages of computers, XP won't freak out and blue screen if it finds all new hardware.
Worst comes to worst, you will have the XP file system corrupted and have to install on a new harddrive. Once the new OS is on there you can still add the old harddrive in the system as a backup and copy the files over that way. I have also done that a million times on many machines.
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This is so true. Either everyone on here are quite in experience to this stuff or just have crappy luck.
And to the one mentioning HAL, if you look at his system, you can see that he's going from a 1ghz to a 1.7ghz, both are single cpu and either one has more than one core, so HAL is not a problem!
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: xmenxmen on September 24, 2007, 02:32:51 pm ---This is so true. Either everyone on here are quite in experience to this stuff or just have crappy luck.
And to the one mentioning HAL, if you look at his system, you can see that he's going from a 1ghz to a 1.7ghz, both are single cpu and either one has more than one core, so HAL is not a problem!
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Why don't you tell me what you think HAL means, and then I'll tell you what it really means.
leapinlew:
Man...
that damn cowbell really knows how to get a nerd fight started.
MrMojoZ:
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This is so true. Either everyone on here are quite in experience to this stuff or just have crappy luck.
And to the one mentioning HAL, if you look at his system, you can see that he's going from a 1ghz to a 1.7ghz, both are single cpu and either one has more than one core, so HAL is not a problem!
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No it isn't true. I can predict the out come of motherboard swaps between SiS, Via, Intel and Nvidia chipset matings. Can you?
Inexpirienced. :laugh2: I have to do motherboard swap outs everyday (thank e-machines).
HaRuMaN:
Isn't HAL the computer on 2001: A Space Oddessy? ???