Well, holy moley, look at all the years I wasted... Not true for the Dell or Sony, or as far as I know, the HP versions... Just tested the Dell.
----- Wallowing deep in the Age of Lowered Expectations... On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Bruce Markowitz <[email protected]>wrote: > Nope, not at all true. The IBM version can be transferred to other > machines. The issue is the IDE drivers. ONLY. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "RayBay" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hard drive swap from T30 into T40 > > > Windows XP detects changes in any aspect of an install of an OEM version, >> and stops the Windows install. You can use a full version of Windows to >> get >> it going, along with a phone call to Microsoft in Canada. >> ----- >> >> Wallowing deep in the Age of Lowered Expectations... >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Group, >>> >>> I posted here about a month ago asking if I could physically swap the >>> hard >>> drive from a T30 into a T40 without other modifications (BIOS, etc). I >>> finally got back around to that project and discovered the answer is >>> "No". >>> Both >>> machines are running XPP. The T30 drive is a 160gb Western Digital >>> Scorpio. >>> The T40 drive is a Seagate Momentus 80gb. >>> >>> After swapping the drives I turn on the T40 and get a blue screen that >>> informs me there was a hardware or software change. Next a screen appears >>> that >>> gives me options to boot into safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe >>> mode >>> with command prompt, boot with last know good configuration, or start >>> windows normally. No matter what option I select (and I tried them all) >>> the >>> blue >>> screen pops back up then the boot options screen. >>> >>> Can anyone offer advice as to how to get around this. I need to get the >>> data and programs from the 160gb T30 drive (which is only 40% full) so it >>> can >>> be used in the T40, with everything intact. I don't have the original XP >>> CD's >>> as both machines were bought second-hand, but I do have recovery disks >>> for >>> the T30 if that helps. As always your assistance is greatly appreciated! >>> >>> Mike Williams >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Thinkpad mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >> > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
