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Dinges   11-29-2004 at 03:26:18 PM

Well, it is like this:
For school we have different pc's all over the school, but we also have a hard disk we can swap between pc's. The only problem is that windows XP will not boot (2000 neither) on the materialy different PC. It just hangs after the "in the bottom" load line, no error is displayed. Does anybody know if it is possible to boot the same windows installation on another PC and how?

Thanks in advance, Dinges

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Dinges on 11/29/04 09:26 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

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folken   11-29-2004 at 06:30:36 PM
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Swaping hard drives between machines is always an iffy thing. If the 2 computers are simmilar there shouldn't be to much of a prob. If they are fairly different (like amd to intel machine) you aren't going to have much luck. Going between chipsets has a very low success rate.
If you go between 2 systems often your windows install is going to get very broken very fast. You would probably have better luck with a linux (suse handles hard ware changes fairly well) install but it will still get very stupid and broken over time.

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RichPLS   11-29-2004 at 06:33:39 PM
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Perform a multi-boot on that hard drive, and install Win twice, once with each PC, and then you can share programs and data.

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jihiggs   11-30-2004 at 12:04:42 AM
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you can only do that if the two computers are exactly the same.

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