Re: Swapping Hard Drives
From: null (null_at_planetzero.com)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:41:59 -0500
Dru M wrote:
> I am trying to swap hard drives from one laptop to another. When I swap the
> hardrive it will not boot in the new machine. My hope is to avoid rebuilding
> the harddrive. The O/S is WinXP Pro
>
> Old system:
> dell Latitude C600
> PIII 733 Mhz
> 256 MB memory
>
> New System:
> Dell Latitude C640
> P4 2.0
> 512 MB memory
>
Are the hard drives identical? On a workstation, if the drives aren't
identical, you may need to go into the BIOS to have it re-detect the
replacement drive. This is probably the case with a laptop as well.
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