On 06/21/2010 08:31 AM, Greg Woods was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 07:19 -0700, JD wrote: > >> ages.) >> >>> >>> >> I thought the windows HW wizard automatically detects new hardware >> and proceeds to install the drivers for it. >> > Under the "right" circumstances. > > >> It's like taking your hard drive >> and putting it into a different PC and booting it. >> > I have had success doing this with Linux, but Windows always blue > screens whenever I try this. I have never figured out whether this is > because of all the anti-piracy crap or if it's just a bug. But I > wouldn't count on the new hardware wizard magically fixing everything on > a Windows system if you try to boot the same image with different > hardware (virtual or physical). > > --Greg > Well, for me, as far as REAL hardware is concerned, I have not had problem migrating the HD to different desktops. Only problem I DID have when doing so, is when there was a clone of the disk as a secondary drive, which was my backup in case the boot disk died. Well, windows detected the backup and literally, mangled that backup disk!! So, I hope people reading this will take note: Never boot windows when a mirror image of the boot disk is present and online (i.e: powered on and connected to the bus). The backup disk was always created via linux (dd) about once a week. I am not going to purse this issue re: blue screen under qemu. It was just an experiment. I like VirtualBox and it works! Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
