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Dell question
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:15 pm
by Merlin
Can I take a WD hard drive out of an home made AMD system and plug it into ( OS and all files included) a Dell that has a bad HDD....the PC was thrown away whole and as far as I can tell so far only has a bad HDD.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:31 am
by bubba
yes, you may have trouble with getting some drivers but XP or Linux will pick up most if not all, mainly the video drivers for the on board video.
I would back up the important stuff first though, just to be safe.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:12 am
by KnightRid
yep, agree with Bubba - plug her in!!
Mike
Oh and wait for all the new stuff to be recognised and installed before messing around - you will probably have to reboot also
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:29 pm
by Psychosis
May have to actually boot into safe mode and remove video drivers or such. Altho sometimes you can get lucky and it work without safe mode.