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Installing a hard drive with Windows 200

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by bwhite

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Is it possible to take a win 2000 hard drive from one tower and put it in another tower, and have it recognize all the motherboard utilies without a hassle???????? If so, just put it in and let it run or is there a method of doing it?

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by big ray

If you are saying take the primary drive from the first PC and plug it in as the primary drive in the second tower, then the answer is no. A reinstall of the OS would be the best solution. There can be unforseen difficulties by not reinstalling anOS especially after changing motherboards.

If you wanted to take a drive from the first PC and put it in as a slave in the second PC, then ther should be no problems. The only thing I can see is that you would need to run the Disk Management tool under Administration Tools in the Control Panel to assign a drive letter.

by homer simpson instructor at large

It usually works. I have had the odd problem with Win2k getting confused the odd time, but a couple of reboots seems to work. There may be some problems with differing power saving technologies, but driver fixes or BIOS updates usually solve that.

by curacao_dejavu

no, you can run into a lot of trouble by doing that.
The motherboards have to be the same, the device can be different and w2k will change them accordingly, but the mother board has to be the same, that info is "burned" into the hardware layer partof the os.
I would suggest to save the data on cd, or another media , and install over new.

Leopold

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