On Wednesday, September 14, 2005 @ 5:05 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 20:17, Greg Wallace wrote: <snippage>
Why not just cut an ASR backup and recover that to your new drive?
As I stated previously, Greg, this is really OT. When you search this list for answers to SUSE or Linux problems, you don't want to pull up a bunch of XP related stuff, do you? I don't. And that's what happens to list quality when off-topic subjects are encouraged.
In any event, XP binds itself to a system hardware profile, which is calculated during installation, encrypted and stored in the registry. Each time the system boots, it checks to see that the stored profile matches the
hardware that it is currently booting on. The signature will be different after the new drive is installed and, when it finds that kind of discrepancy, it /may/ no longer boot, etc., as I described in my previous post... the point of which was that the OP can easily Google and find tons of existing posts and articles addressing this non-SUSE, non-Linux subject.
just 2 cents more,
- Carl
Carl: Well, he does have a Linux MBR on that disk, and the fact he has a Linux system and is just trying to make a hardware correction with a system about to fail made me feel like it was ok to give him a high-level suggestion, even though it technically wasn't a Linux question. But your point is also well taken. While I'm on the line, regarding the XP security issue, I wouldn't think a new hard drive on the same computer would give him a problem. Worst case, he could just switch the drives back and be where he was before he started. Greg W