Swapping hdd w/ 2k
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Name: Shigun2k2
Date: April 19, 2003 at 06:37:13 Pacific
Subject: Swapping hdd w/ 2k
OS: win2k
CPU/Ram: p2 266 w/ 96 sd-ram
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Comment: Heya,
Recently my hdd went bad and I had a friend work on it for me. He fixed the problem with the hdd (was w/ the master boot record) and reinstalled win 2k along with some other stuff. I recall hearing about some "security feature" in win 2k that prevents taking a hdd from one system and putting it in another. Will I encounter any problems if I go and get my hdd back and put it back in my system since it was built up on another system? Thanx for any feedback.
- Shigun
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Response Number 1
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Name: RayMan
Date: April 19, 2003 at 09:03:33 Pacific
Subject: Swapping hdd w/ 2k
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Reply: (edit)The security frature you eluded to is for Win XP. It's copyright protection. As long as the 2 systems are similar you should be able to run it in your original machine. You'll probably have to tweak it a bit with driver corrections etc.
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Response Number 2
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Name: trvlr
Date: April 20, 2003 at 10:05:30 Pacific
Subject: Swapping hdd w/ 2k |
Reply: (edit)You may encounter problems. Unlike '9x which is 'usually pretty friendly' regarding moving an drive with an installed OS to another PC (i.e. a different MoBo) W2K is not that helpful. Folks have observed in the past that changing the MoBo in a system does not work well for a drive already installed with W2K... Usually it means a re-install of W2K; at the least you may have to do an 'Upgrade' of current installation to rewrite critical driver/registry info. to reflect the drive's 'new' home...; I don't think a Repair will do it.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Shigun2k2
Date: April 21, 2003 at 05:40:26 Pacific
Subject: Swapping hdd w/ 2k
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Reply: (edit)Here's how the drive swap went: all of the more significatn drivers were deleted from the system it was on. When I put the other system it ran through a bunch of new hardware detection wizards and found new drivers for the new hardware. It's up and running fine now. Thanx for the feedback.
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