Re: Copying Hard Drives

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>]

> The simple answer is, dunno mate. Not exactly helpful, but no one can
> really say for sure :-/
>
> It's a bit like changing your vga card or sound card in an existing
> machine, the majority of the time windows will detect the change and
> take the correct action, occasionally you're left with a dead build.
>
> Now bump that up to a build where almost every component has just
> changed. Far more to go wrong and I've certainly had a number of
trials
> with results ranging from dead as a dead thing which is very very
dead,
> through useable but not very stable to no noticeable problems and a
good
> few months use before the usual windows problems start to occur.
>
> All I can suggest it to try it if you have a spare machine and see
what
> happens.

Bluescreen with inaccessable boot device has being my experiance.

One solution is to remove the ACPI PC device and shut down, this will mean
it
comes up in safe mode and reinstalls stuff, but still no good with a
SATA/Raid/SCSI type situation where you need drivers for the boot device.


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