Moving a C: drive from one computer to another
Monday, September 22, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
(was: Hard drive reconizing drives)
|Okay here is my problem
|and I tried to search to see if there was a similar one and could not find it .
| norma Barclay
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The problem is called "The Windows Registry".
It is a fragile, stupid way--only Microsoft does this--
for a (Microsoft) operating system to retain data needed by it
and (really, really dumb here) needed by other programs.
|I have two hard drives that came from a friend whom had them in a compaq pc .
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The brand of the previous computer is not important.
The source of the problem is Microsoft's merchandising-driven engineering.
Your choices are:
1) Leave the drive in the system where Windows was installed and use it there
or
2) Wipe the drive clean and start over.
(You have a Windows Install Disk, of course
--and all the floppy disks and CDs associated with the hardware, of course.)
|When I try to put the hard drive on another pc it boots up
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Semantics: The computer would "boot" if it have NO drives in it
--you just wouldn't see any evidence of an operating system.
|and then when it is going through the process of reconizing the drivers
|it gets to a driver that says something like
|" Aureal 3d is only compatable on compacq pc ."
|and will not go any further
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Your sound card is **different** than the one in the old computer.
With an operating system that wasn't produced by fools,
it would just ask for a proper device driver for the card you *do* have.
You can now say "Thank you Microsoft--for treating me like a criminal".
ALL OF THIS NONSENSE
is about M$'s paranoia about having their software "pirated".
As stated, ONLY MICROSOFT does things this way ("The Registry").
If you want a Micros~1 operating system to run on *that* computer,
gather up all the W98 device drivers for that system--one for each device--
and INSTALL the operating system on *that* computer.
...and after you have "installed the operating system" from a CD,
you will have to do NUMEROUS "updates" to it to achieve a "fully-patched" level.
...OTOH, a *proper* operating system (e.g. Linux[1])
will have CURRENT versions of ALL the stuff you need
ON THE INSTALL DISK FOR THE OS.
[1] Have I mentioned that Linux doesn't cost you a penny?
...and LINUX doesn't worrry about you "pirating" their stuff
--so they don't have to purposely make things difficult.
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- Hard drive reconizing drives (norma Barclay: Monday, September 22, 2008 at 12:43 pm)
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