OT (sorta) Removing Linux

[Neal Richardson]

I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok
like 10 reboots it did in fact work fine.

-Neal Richardson


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:29, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:05pm, hewitt_tech at attbi.com wrote:
> > BTW, for small money you can pick up a 3.5 to 2.5 hard driver adaptor.
> 
>   Yes.  I paid about $12 for my 44-pin adapter.  :)
> 
> > Then you can install Windows to the 2.5 drive setup as master on another
> > box.
> 
>   It is a much better idea to either (1) copy files needed to bootstrap the
> CD-ROM reader to the hard disk, or (2) copy the contents of the Windows
> CD-ROM to the hard disk.  You can then move the drive back and do the actual
> Windows install on the target computer.
> 
> > ... you will likely go through several rounds of "found new hardware" and
> > reboot cycles.
> 
>   Indeed, and the new system will likely never be completely right in the
> head.  According to what Microsoft PSS (Product Support Services) has told
> me, MS-Windows will generally not survive a change in motherboard correctly.  
> Apparently, the device tree is tied to the motherboard type somehow, and
> switching that can permanently hose the device manager.
> 
>   This was for Windows 95, as I remember, but I haven't seen anything to
> lead me to believe that things are different for any other version of
> MS-Windows.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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