Changing HD from one box to another [dual boot] [w2k]
Q: Im gets a new system without a hard drive, but I need to test it out. At present, only I 2 HDs that im used to dual boot W2K win98.
To and testing of the system, I wanted to pull HD from my current W2K box and put it into the new. Im going to run into some problems when I just doa straight swap? Or should I prep for the new HD W2K installation?
Curent rig will not the same hardware as the new box.
Thanks for all the info and suggestions.
Best Answer: If you were in the middle of a read or write operation there could be some corruption of the MFT. See if you can run a chkdsk or scandisk on it. I don't think that any of the folders for F are there, it's just XP thinks they are there. Do you just yank the cable out or do you safely remove hardware? That may be a factor as well.
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Re:thanks, looks like ill have to go to some bizzare extreme in testing the system, prolly try booting to a w2k boot disk, and repartitioning one drive for testing purposes.
Since this will be my new route, is there a 'very safe way' to partition a drive to dual boot and be able to wipe/merge that partition back to its previous state. Obviously I need to defrag and checkdisk. But which systems does a better job of wiping itself and recovering that old partition: w2k or win98?
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Re:You're probably screwed, sometimes Win2K can survive if you get sysprep and do 'sysprep -pnp' before the swap may help as it will redetect all hardware at next bootup, Win9X may limp a long on it's own but you're better off reinstalling in either case.
Any other OS like Linux should be easily swappable, just make sure the new hd controller is supported by the current kernel and you can boot up and fix any other drivers easily. I've kept the same Linux install for over 2 years now, constantly upgrading hardware making me have to reinstall Win2K quite a few times.
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Re:Sorry man, if you put that hdd in another system with re-installing the OS from scratch, you'll hose the OS and it won't work in the old box as well.
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Re:It will only boot, if the hd ur swapping has a boot sector on it. But even if you get it to boot, win2k is pretty strict with hardware. Its gonna have to update alot of drivers for the new hardware. So Its not like you can just swap hd and everything will be dandy. Every time you swap, windows has to figure out what hardware is installed in the system and install the appropriate drivers. Its not that easy of a task, and will prob cause some problems. Win9x will be a little more lenient, but its still not that easy.
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Re:I had tried to swap hdd between two exactly the same laptops but no go. System booted but didn't want to load the OS.
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