Windows can almost never switch to different hardware.  If they're the same
southbridge it tends to work, but otherwise it's screwed.  BSODs half way
through the Windows loading logo.

The linux kernel will swap modules in new hardware.  That simple.  I've done
it in several rhel distros and a couple debian.

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a
> machine with different hardware.  Can Linux handle this gracefully?
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