On 20/03/2011 7:46 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:40:11 -0500, wrote:
And your claim that you copied Windows XP from one system and restored
on another system sounds very fishy if you ask me. As unless the two
systems are very much alike, it just won't work. As when Windows
installs, it loads the correct CPU, chipset, etc. drivers for that
machine. And moving it to another system, the odds are great that it
will be all wrong and it won't work at all.
Well, it did work. Windows detected new hardware the first time I ran it in
the new machine, and asked me to validate it or something.
Apart from the SATA drives, the other main difference was the new motherboard,
which is faster and had more memory. It also has speakers, which Windows
detected and installed something to make them work.
I'm typing this on it, and I've had it for about 6 months now.
Yes, it's true, sometimes wholesale major changes in components such as
the motherboard, processor, chipset, etc. can result in having nothing
more to do than boot into it, and it'll just redetect everything and
away you go. Maybe add some non-critical drivers downloaded from the
Internet or from a CD.
It is also true that sometimes just a minor component change can result
in all hell breaking loose and your system refuses to boot up anymore,
and you have to reinstall the OS from scratch.
Yousuf Khan