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Frankly i find the "problem" to be modern Windows. The 9x series had little trouble being moved around between motherboards and such, but the NT based ones see
by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly i find the "problem" to be modern Windows.
The 9x series had little trouble being moved around between motherboards and such, but the NT based ones seems to error at the drop of a pin (never mind how ornery Microsoft has become about copyright).
- wtallis 9y agoMicrosoft's bootloader is hilariously fragile, but once you fix that I haven't had much trouble migrating drives between fairly different systems (eg. quad-core consumer desktop and a dual-socket rackmount server).
- JepZ 9y agoYou might want to try Linux. As long as you don't compile your system with options optimized for your CPU and stay away from binary graphics drivers, you can pretty much boot it on every desktop PC hardware you like without any need for a new installation. Just don't expect everything to be perfect. Linux has its own set of weaknesses, but being picky about changing the hardware isn't one of them.
- digi_owl 9y agoI have and i used to like it. But some kind of mindrot is setting in at the user facing levels of development, and it is worming its way down the stack towards the kernel.
- jotm 9y agoI moved a Windows 7 installation between computers several times now - just clone and go. There's some whining and drivers on first boot, but otherwise it's fine. I really need to reinstall it, but can't be bothered right now, it works fine :D