On 2015-05-27 15:07, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 05/27/2015 06:06 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
One of the things I love most about Linux. The HP laptop had provision for a second hard drive. Found and ordered the cable. I moved the Windows hard drive that came with the laptop to the secondary drive cable and took the hard drive from my Gateway out and put it in as the primary drive. Booted up the laptop to the "new" primary drive got Grub reconfigured to boot Windows and all was well. Linux didn't even blink when it found itself in a different computer. Just kept right on truckin' like nothing had changed. Try that with a Windows drive.
Yes, I have done that, too. Works surprisingly well. Windows? No way. If it manages to boot at all (very similar machine) then it will tell you it is a pirated copy, and you will have to start chasing drivers. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)