Wonderful, not weird
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Pulled the hard disk from a Ubuntu system, swapped it into a different laptop. Very different configuration; about the only thing they have in common is a manufacturer's badge and a QWERTY keyboard. The first boot took a little longer than usual, but it came up seamlessly. Try that with Windows! Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Pulled the hard disk from a Ubuntu system, swapped it into a different laptop. Very different configuration; about the only thing they have in common is a manufacturer's badge and a QWERTY keyboard. The first boot took a little longer than usual, but it came up seamlessly. Try that with Windows! Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
A long time ago I did something similar on a Win 95 (or was it 98) machine. Whole new motherboard, processor, etc. When it booted up I saw some messages about updating various drivers, which it did fairly seamlessly. I don't remember for certain, but I think it did ask to be rebooted, but after that it came up just fine... No idea what Windows does now though...
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A long time ago I did something similar on a Win 95 (or was it 98) machine. Whole new motherboard, processor, etc. When it booted up I saw some messages about updating various drivers, which it did fairly seamlessly. I don't remember for certain, but I think it did ask to be rebooted, but after that it came up just fine... No idea what Windows does now though...
I did it recently: changed the MB, Processor, and RAM. Heck, I went from a E6700 to an i5 and a totally different MB and BIOS manufacturer. Turned on the power and it booted fine - possibly a little slowly but not much off the original boot time. Only hassle was the "Windows Activation Licence" which - rightly - decided it was different hardware and I needed to reactivate. That would have gone smoothly if I had less than three monitors, or the remote desktop software MS technical use could see more than just the middle one. Or if the taskbar had been on that monitor, I guess that would have been handy. Of course, if the "activation failure" detector hadn't deliberately disabled any changes to the desktop at all that would have helped. :laugh:
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I did it recently: changed the MB, Processor, and RAM. Heck, I went from a E6700 to an i5 and a totally different MB and BIOS manufacturer. Turned on the power and it booted fine - possibly a little slowly but not much off the original boot time. Only hassle was the "Windows Activation Licence" which - rightly - decided it was different hardware and I needed to reactivate. That would have gone smoothly if I had less than three monitors, or the remote desktop software MS technical use could see more than just the middle one. Or if the taskbar had been on that monitor, I guess that would have been handy. Of course, if the "activation failure" detector hadn't deliberately disabled any changes to the desktop at all that would have helped. :laugh:
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I did it with my kid's pc too. Whole new pc. Swapped old HDD out into new box. Win 8.1 Started up just fine!
