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hardware prob in linux mandrake 10.1

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by bits640

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i have one pc with celeron 600 MHz,intel chipset 810 motherboard,128 mb SD RAM and 20 GB samsung HDD.Now problem is,last week i have install Mandrake 10.1 on my PC on sec partation.it was working fine.but one day me and my friend attach my Hard Disk on other PC,with different Config,on that system, we tried to run Mandrake that was installed on my HDD.nothing run and now even when i attach my hard disk with my PC,mandrake is not running. However Windows 98 installed on C:\ drive is running.

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by absolutely

Basically, your HDD with Mandrake 10.1 has information about two motherboards, two processors...two of everything, and wherever you put it, it will not actually find all the hardware in its list, and thus will not work.

Format, re-install, and remember not to change HDD's with operating systems installed from one computer to another, unless you plan to wipe the drive anyway. It's simply more trouble to move an operating system disk to a new hardware environment than you're trying to save.

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If that Mandrake disk has data you want to recover, the Mandrake partitioning options should allow you to omit re-formatting on all but / partitions, and maybe /swap, where you obviously have not stored any data!

If you did not make a separate /home partition but have data there, you will find it easiest to retrieve that data by installing Mandrake on a different HDD on the same system, which you will grant access to your /home partition.

Good luck!

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