Re: two machines swap harddrives
- From: "Steve N." <me@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 16:06:54 GMT
keyser_Soze@xxxxxxx wrote:
I would like to make my wife's machine our print/file server and the current print/file server my wife's machine. I am hoping I can do this without having to reinstall software other then device drivers.
Is there an easy way that I can take a drive from one machine and put it in antoher and have it load the correct device drivers for the new machine?
Assuming I can do the above, I will move the server to my wife's old
machine and
that will be all with it. On my wife's machine, I would like to move
her from a
20 GB drive to a new 160GB drive. Both drives are IDE. How can I copy
the data
from the 20GB drive to the 160GB drive so that it is a single 160 drive
and still bootable?
Thanks!
If (and only if) the hardware in both systems is identical you can do this. Otherwise as others have said, a repair install will be needed.
My question to you is why don't you just set your wife's PC up to share files/printers? It's not that difficult to do and doesn't require swapping drives around. In other words, I think you're approaching it from the wrong direction.
Steve
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