Even if you were doing it as an 'upgrade' or 'repair'? Need to know as I will have to do this sooner or later i.e keep all existing programs and settings but transfer to a new PC. I have had this done by IBM when they came around our department and upgraded all the PC's. Everything ran flawlessly on the new PC's with no losses of anything I could determine.
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Cloned Drive then dead PC. Odds of getting it working?
- Thread starter seasideheights
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Quote from MR.NBBO:
I've done it multiple times as well....but it's just not that simple on so many levels.
Again, completely depends on how different the hardware is, even mild variations create problems.
Right, I wouldn't use it as a long term solution.
Btw, I put the HD into a completely new setup. New MoBo (different brand), CPU, video card, sound, etc. I used it for about a month, and later I put the HD back in the old computer and it was fine.
Quote from bespoke:
Right, I wouldn't use it as a long term solution.
Btw, I put the HD into a completely new setup. New MoBo (different brand), CPU, video card, sound, etc. I used it for about a month, and later I put the HD back in the old computer and it was fine.
Why wouldn't you use it as a long term solution?
Quote from seasideheights:
What are the odds that it'll work in a new Dell PC?
Only if the new computer uses the same Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) as the broken one. Windows NT based systems (Win2000/WinXP/Vista) are all very picky about having the right system files and registry entries. If not, the blue screen of death is a frequent occurrence on boot up. Sometimes you have to boot with the Windows CD and do a "Repair" to get things to work. I'm only touching the surface here, there's loads of info on the net and at Microsoft's site about all of the different hardware/software mismatch issues and how to correct them.
The big issue is that it remembers your disk drive configuration (partitions etc).
I've got around it in the past by just partitioning the new disk exactly like the old one. But this article gives you a good understanding of the options.
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm
I've got around it in the past by just partitioning the new disk exactly like the old one. But this article gives you a good understanding of the options.
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm
Quote from kiwi_trader:
The big issue is that it remembers your disk drive configuration (partitions etc).
I've got around it in the past by just partitioning the new disk exactly like the old one. But this article gives you a good understanding of the options.
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm
Wouldn't that be automatically handled by the cloning software that made the disk?