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Can I simply swap hard drives?
xmenxmen:
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--- 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.
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I don't know, so why don't u tell me. :laugh: And while you are at it, tell me how many of those home pc that are not "ACPI".
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: xmenxmen on September 24, 2007, 06:57:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 24, 2007, 02:34:18 pm ---
--- 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.
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I don't know, so why don't u tell me. :laugh: And while you are at it, tell me how many of those home pc that are not "ACPI".
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I know you don't know.... everyone knows you don't know. :)
Pretty much every machine I've been working on for the last half a dozen years or so have been ACPI compliant. Not sure what that has to do with what were talking about, but whatever. If you've had luck swapping drives around from one computer to another good for you. I've tried to do it plenty of times and it pretty much always bombs out unless the recipient computer has identical hardware.
Avrus:
How many of you are hardcore enough to remember?
xcopy32 /s /e /r /h /c /k /y
XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: Avrus on September 24, 2007, 11:35:38 pm ---How many of you are hardcore enough to remember?
xcopy32 /s /e /r /h /c /k /y
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And how many have graduated to robocopy?
Teebor:
The worst experience I have had was when I was building 30 identical PC's from the same batch, I built the first one with windows XP and then cloned it to the remaining 29. Alhough the hardware was identical in every respect none of the rest of the machine would work, I think it was due to the memory addresses being slightly different on each machine which caused it to crash.
However I have removed a windows XP drive from two completely different machines with different chipsets and because they were so different windows XP had to re-detect everything and worked ok.
Windows 2000 used to be even better at it then windows XP, windows XP sometimes flakes out, at which point if you re-install the OS back over the top of itself it rebuilds the hardware portion of the registry, changes a couple of settings in the software part back to defaults but leaves everything else intact.
Of course none of this works if you are using SATA or raid as its effectively a complete start from scratch as it normally fails.