[dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I...

I'm not going to say never, because I don't believe in it, but it would be
very hard, what with all the old hardware drivers and things that would need
to be removed, and then installed for the new system. What OS is it running?

If it's 2k or XP, you could always remove the old drivers etc, stick it in
the new box and run a repair install, see if that would work. I won't
guarantee a good result, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: 27 May 2008 23:17
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I...

...take a perfectly good, bootable IDE hard disk from one PC that's seen
better days and mount it in a new PC with a new hard disk, and make the old
drive boot the new PC?  I mean, really.  Are we forever doomed to having to
re-install every bleeping bit of software on a new PC?

I ask because it can become very problematical to re-install some software
if there never was a CD for it.  Besides the fact that it could take hours
and hours to go through the routine and download all the farging upgrades to
get everything on the new system to the point that it's as usable as the old
PC.

Any way at all?  I've seen our network admin do very interesting things with
external SATA drives to switch which drive is the bootable one after making
a clone copy with Future Systems' Casper.  But what about plain Jane IDE
drives?

Anybody?

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI
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