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Charlie   04-19-2004 at 09:58:29 PM

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I have a laptop (IBM A30) that has stopped working, but the hard drive
is fine, and it has XP Pro installed. Would it be possible to transfer
the hard drive to another A30 and have it continue to work as it did,
or is the OS somehow keyed to my individual computer?

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

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Anonymous   04-19-2004 at 09:58:30 PM
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> I have a laptop (IBM A30) that has stopped working, but the
> hard drive is fine, and it has XP Pro installed. Would it be
> possible to transfer the hard drive to another A30 and have it
> continue to work as it did, or is the OS somehow keyed to my
> individual computer?

It should work with no problem.

The IBM preinstalls of XP are BIOS locked to IBM systems in general, not to
a specific ThinkPad (and not even to a specific ThinkPad model).

-Mike

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Charlie   04-19-2004 at 11:23:34 PM
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:43:34 -0700, "Michael Geary"
<Mike@DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote:

<snip>
>The IBM preinstalls of XP are BIOS locked to IBM systems in general, not to
>a specific ThinkPad (and not even to a specific ThinkPad model).
>
>-Mike
>
Thanks for that information Mike... I may be able to salvage something
from this mess!

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

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