Thanks Rick. Kinda like buying a car and it being rendered inoperative if I installed a new engine.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Rick Ellison <relli...@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > > My local computer store tells me that one cannot simply take a hard drive > from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even if you have a Windows license > disc for the new PC. Is this correct? > > > > Unless you install it in a computer that has the exact same hardware > (Motherboard, Video, Ect.) yes this is true. 9 out of 10 times the system > will crash because you are trying to load drivers for hardware that is not > present…. > > > > 73 Rick N2AMG > > > > *From:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] > *On Behalf Of *Andrew O'Brien > *Sent:* Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:38 PM > *To:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [digitalradio] Zapped PCs, data recovery, and Windows ! > > > > > > After years or running PC's without issues, I have had 4 go bad in 12 > months. Two this week, 4 days apart via thunderstorms . One went today > just an hour after I had fully reinstalled ham equipment on a new PC that > arrived yesterday. The new one survived, I had unplugged it at the sound of > thunder. I powered off the older one but forgot to remove the power cord, > it got zapped. I put in a spare power supply that i had, that lasted 5 > minutes and gave up the ghost. Maybe something else was weakened by the > original zap and caused the second power supply to burn out. > > Anyway, my main issue is the frustrating fact that I have data on hard > drives that seems ridiculously complex to retrieve when using > Windows based PCs. My local computer store tells me that one cannot simply > take a hard drive from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even if you have a > Windows license disc for the new PC. Is this correct? In the past I have > taken old drives and installed them in different PC's as slave drives. > However this causes one to have to re-install many programs because they > were originally installed to the registry on a C-drive. > > So what do I do with 5 hard drives laying around the shack ? In particular > one two-drive system with 160 gigs of useful data on it (both have Windows > OS on them since both are from different original PC systems!) . It would > be nice to install in to a PC without having to get a HD with an OS on it. > -- > Andy > > > > > > -- Andy
