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Most Linux can do that. Even Windows (at least Vista and laters) are able to work on two different PCs almost without teaks.
by szatkus 12y ago
Most Linux can do that. Even Windows (at least Vista and laters) are able to work on two different PCs almost without teaks.
- johnchristopher 12y agoWhat happens if I plug my win7 main SSD into another friend's secondary SATA port (the one in the disc bay of a laptop for instance) ? Does the BIOS/(U)EFI act as bootloader ? If not: does the original win7 detects another win7 on a different partition and then triggers a bootloader ? If no bootloader are involved, what mechanism is in place to detect the other bootable disc ? It's all BIOS boot menu ? (replace win7 with any linux)
- szatkus 12y agoI'm not sure what happens if there another disk with Windows (also I've never tried with UEFI). I think that changin boot disk at BIOS should be enough. At worst you will see black screen/BSOD, but your system will be perfectly fine, so you can plug it back to your computer. If you succeded probably you would need to install some missing drivers. Linux are more flexible. Few (about 10?) years ago I had to change xorg GPU driver manually, but today autodetection is much better.