Re: Swopping HDD's between 2 P.C.s
From: Peter Hutchison (pjhutch_at_NOSPAM.plus.com)
Date: 05/15/04
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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:43:20 +0100
On Fri, 7 May 2004 10:32:47 -0700, "Andrew"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I have 2 p.c's, one with XP on a SATA HDD and one with
>WinME on an EIDE HDD. I would like to swop the two
>drives over, however, when I tried a straight forward
>swop I couldn't get the "new" machine with XP to boot.
>When I placed the HDD's back into their original machines
>they both booted without problems. Can anyone advise on
>the best way I can achieve the swop-over?
Run SYSPREP to remove the driver information before swapping HDs
between different computers, this will force XP to redetect all the
hardware (its in Deploy.cab on XP CD).
Peter Hutchison
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