Re: Copying Hard Drives

[dlt@xxxxxxx]

In my experiences, Windows XP and 2000 usually gives a "blue screen of
death"
when you put a build on totally different hardware.
Something I find very strange as Windows 95, 98 etc just re-detects
everything
and carrys on working so it's like XP and 2000 has taken a step back!!!
If you do get a blue screen on boot, simply boot from the CD and have it
rebuild
itself, you don't loose any thing, but the rebuild does the same as what 95
and
98 does.

Sorry if this doesn't read right, but a killer hang-over doesn't help!!

HTH

Darren


> ----- Message from calum@xxxxxxx ---------
>     Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:14:40 +0000
>     From: Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Copying Hard Drives
>       To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>
> Mark McCall wrote:
> >>I've been using Norton Ghost for just that since '96.
> >
> >
> > Something I keep meaning to do too.
> >
> > What happens if you restore a ghost image to different hardware? 
Is there
> > some initial thrashing whilst new hardware is detected, or is
this a recipe
> > for an unstable machine?
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Calum Morrell
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