Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:17:42 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Swap Hard Drives Between 2 Different Manufacturer Laptops - OK
--- David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:17:18 -0800 (PST) > From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Swap Hard Drives Between 2 > Different Manufacturer Laptops - OK > > > If I want to swap hard drives in my laptops (one > is Toshiba and one is > > Fujitsu) should I > > > > A) Bite the bullet and format them and reinstall > OS fresh on each drive. > > Reinstall drivers, apps..... > > > > B) Just swap drives and install drivers as needed. > > > > I assume best approach is Option 'A' right? > > Yep. B is just dumb unless you're careful and > know exactly how to uninstall > drivers/reinstall drivers etc. You can do it, but > it takes a lot of technical > knowhow to get it right. > > If you backup both to CD-R or DVD-R discs with > Ghost 2003, etc., you can swap > drives, restore from the backups and be running in > minutes. excellant advice. just had to swap my hard drive from a fujitsu laptop (it died on me) into my l110 and it basically would not boot neither windows or linux. My dos recovery partition worked though so after a few weeks (as of now--really just got everything working again!!:)) I was able to operate the computer properly. So if you swap look forward to a very possible fun time fixing everything!! john > > adorable toshiba libretto > The latest news and information for the Toshiba > Libretto owner. > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
