Andrew O'Brien wrote:
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> After years or running PC's without issues, I have had 4 go bad in 12
> months. Two this week, 4 days apart via thunderstorms . One went today
> just an hour after I had fully reinstalled ham equipment on a new PC
> that arrived yesterday. The new one survived, I ha
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
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> Thanks Rick. Kinda like buying a car and it being rendered
> inoperative if I installed a new engine.
Exactly. You would most likely have to buy the exact same make, model,
and year of car for it to work.
Tim, N9PUZ
Annou
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:00 -0400, "Andrew O'Brien"
> said:
> My local computer store tells me that one cannot simply take a hard
> drive from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even if you have a
> Windows license disc for the new PC. Is this correct?
I expect you'll have all kinds
It is true that you can have driver issues if you try to use a primary (C)
drive from one computer on another. However, it is not insurmountable. I
recently bought a de-branded HP computer that had no operating system, but
was designed for Vista. I wanted to put XP on it, and it took a while to
You cannot replace the C drive of Windows PC #1 with the C drive of Windows
PC #2 and expect the resulting machine to boot unless PC #1 and PC #2 use
the same motherboard and peripherals. However, you can configure the C drive
of PC #2 to be a secondary drive in PC #1 assuming that PC #1 supports t
The latest Puppy Linux is here:
http://puppylinux.org/downloads/official-releases/latest-production-version
(not the NBEMS version, but will work). You just need a computer to
access the Internet and a program that will burn an ISO.
73, Skip KH6TY
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
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> yes, I thought o
Thanks Rick. Kinda like buying a car and it being rendered inoperative if
I installed a new engine.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Rick Ellison wrote:
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> My local computer store tells me that one cannot simply take a hard drive
> from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even if you have
yes, I thought of that Skip. I am looking for a copy of my working Puppy,
cleaned the shack last week and have misplaced it. I should point out that
I am close to having almost everything I need ,expect OS, backed up on teh
web and accessible when I need to start over. I have my log backed up a
My local computer store tells me that one cannot simply take a hard drive
from a old Pc and place it in a new PC even if you have a Windows license
disc for the new PC. Is this correct?
Unless you install it in a computer that has the exact same hardware
(Motherboard, Video, Ect.) yes this
Andy,
Try running a NBEMS Puppy Linux CD live. You can access all the data and
windows partitions with Puppy from the Puppy Desktop.
73, Skip KH6TY
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
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> After years or running PC's without issues, I have had 4 go bad in 12
> months. Two this week, 4 days apart via thu
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