Text 1795, 78 rader
Skriven 2005-01-06 22:50:30 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 1747 av Geo (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Drive connection standards: EIDE, Serial ATA, Firewire, USB, other?
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From: "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com>

That I don't know, because I never ran NT4, but if you try pulling a win2k
installed hard disk and putting it into a different machine with different
chipset/motherboard and hard drive controller chips.  It will blue screen with
inaccessible boot drive.  I've seen web info where some claim that if you take
the win2k install and delete all special hardware devices and get everything
back to standard vga, standard int13 disk drive controllers, etc etc., and then
put the hard drive in the machine with the new motherboard and boot up that it
will recognize the new hardware devices and not necessarily blue screen on you.

Gary

"Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:41da0ac9@w3.nls.net...
> I would think W2K would be more forgiving about hardware changes than NT4
> would.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt" <garyb@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
> news:41d967b3@w3.nls.net...
> > I'd suggest swapping out the motherboard before upgrading to Win2K.
> > Otherwise with the hardware changes you might have to reinstall Win2K
all
> > over again after the motherboard swap.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Randall Parker" <STOPtechieSPAMpunditNOW@STOPfutureSPAMpundit.comNOW>
> wrote
> > in message news:41d8e4a9@w3.nls.net...
> > > Gary,
> > >
> > > Initially I just want to plug the drive into a 5 year old motherboard
> and
> > copy the
> > > existing old drive's partitions over to it and make it bootable (going
> to
> > try using
> > > Acronis Disk Manager to do this). Then a couple of weeks later upgrade
> to
> > Win2k
> > > (running NT on this box). Then in a month I intend to swap out the
> > motherboard and
> > > processor and the new MoBo should have all the fancy UDMA mode
support.
> > >
> > > So if initially I'm using older slower modes it is no big deal. I just
> > want it to
> > > work at each stage of my migration.
> > >
> > > I'm doing the upgrade in slow motion with time between steps to make
> sure
> > each step
> > > didn't mess up anything.
> > >
> > > Gary Britt wrote:
> > > > Maxtor drives have some good sales going for the past few months.  I
> > have 2
> > > > Maxtor 160 gb 133 mhz UDMA drives that have 16 mb cache and rotation
> > speed
> > > > of 7200 rpm.  If your motherboard doesn't support 133 mhz UDMA 6
> modes,
> > you
> > > > can do what I did and get a Promise Ultra 133/Tx2 hard drive
> controller.
> > > > Fry's has these 160 gb Maxtor drives on sale for $129, if memory
> serves.
> > > >
> > > > Gary
> >
> >
>
>

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