[ale] VM ?
Michael B. Trausch
fd0man at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 16:20:42 EDT 2007
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 14:33 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> I would expect worse than that. I haven't tried it since Win2000, but
> that OS definitely wouldn't boot if you changed motherboards. The
> main
> problem is the IDE controller driver, I think.
Sure it does. I used to cart my Win2k install around on a portable IDE
case?you know, those cases that plug into the internal IDE/power, and
let you pull the hard drive out and go to another computer with it?
Every time I'd visited a computer with new hardware in it (which usually
meant a completely different type of system), it would boot up, detect
and install hardware devices, and reboot. Sometimes it would take up to
four reboots the first time on a new system, but it worked. I never ran
into the problem of it not booting on a system.
Then again, this was before Microsoft started coming up with "Hey, let's
check devices and use that as a means to force people to not have
convenient lives!" This was a drive that I was using between school and
home, too, and I sure didn't have anything close to the systems that
they had at school at the time. :-)
Such functionality might have been disabled in later service packs for
Win2k, though. It would be consistent with Microsoft's behaviors.
? Mike
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