Tron Fanatic
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Posts: 1,461 | Is it possible to 'transplant' Win2K?
on Friday, December, 03, 2004 8:51 AM
It can detect new hardware and as long as the drivers are available, it can adjust itself accordingly. But this is a bit of a bigger deal..
I'm upgrading my system - new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and am wondering if it'll be possible to simply move the HDD's and the peripherals to the new computer without Windows having a nervous breakdown.
Anyone ever tried this?
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Compucore
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: Is it possible to 'transplant' Win2K?
on Friday, December, 03, 2004 11:58 AM
I never really tried it for win2k persnally on the older windows nvironments like win 95 98/98se. I've done that on several occassions there without a problem there. Give it a try they might ave taken the idea from 95 & 98 and put it into win2k and xp. But make sure that your hard drive is back up first before doing this. We don't need someone coming back ad cry. I think it mght work personally. I'm thinking of doing that to another system over here too. Since I have a PIII 450 and 500 over here.
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MutoidMan
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Posts: 2,232 | Re: Is it possible to 'transplant' Win2K?
on Friday, December, 03, 2004 12:15 PM
It should be possible.
I would guess that at worst you would have reduced performance until you installed the new MoBo's drivers, especially if you're going from a PCI/ATA setup to a backward compatible PCI-E/SATA setup with a new chipset, which I'm sure Win2K will not already have drivers for.
However, as Compucore said please be sure to back up your HDD first.
Also, I'm don't know if Win2K has the same sort of authentication procedures that WinXP has. If it does, the hardware hash it performs may make it think that all the new hardware it's seeing means that you may be trying to copy it to another PC and it will then force you to call Microsoft in order to reactivate it.
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