>>>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:00 -0400, "Andrew O'Brien" >>>>> <andrewob...@gmail.com> said:
> 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? I expect you'll have all kinds of driver issues. Also, Windows treats its users as maybe-criminals and requires permission from the mothership every time the hardware changes significantly. On a Linux system you have neither of these problems. I would expect the transplanted hard drive to work on a new machine (after all, the LiveCD runs everywhere) and of course there's none of that activation nonsense. As for running Windows software, I hear that VirtualBox works very well these days :-) -- 73, Stelios, M0GLD.
