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moving hard drive
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:06 pm
by carlos
I'm updating my laptop and will be switching my hard drive to the new machine. My question: is mint smart enough to figure out it's in a new machine? Ad will it install most drivers automatically? I figure I'll have to run envy to install the vid driver, but wasn't sure about the rest.
Re: moving hard drive
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:12 pm
by JAK
carlos wrote:I'm updating my laptop and will be switching my hard drive to the new machine. My question: is mint smart enough to figure out it's in a new machine? Ad will it install most drivers automatically? I figure I'll have to run envy to install the vid driver, but wasn't sure about the rest.
Please let us know how it goes after you've done this. Thanks for being a guinea pig
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:08 am
by carlos
Ha! I surely will.
Re: moving hard drive
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:07 am
by scorp123
carlos wrote:I'm updating my laptop and will be switching my hard drive to the new machine. My question: is mint smart enough to figure out it's in a new machine?
Should work ... if the laptops are not too different then booting should work OK. Where it probably will fail (especially if the chipsets are different) is:
- X11
- Sound
You'd need to reconfigure those, but that shouldn't be too much of trouble.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:24 am
by hugh
Hi, I've done the same thing recently, moving a 60gb hard drive from a Toshiba Tecra to a Panasonic Toughbook.
All went very well, I just had to reconfigure X11 from the command line before I could get into Gnome.
Some of the distros on other partitions didn't fare so well though.
Cheers,
Hugh
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:48 am
by carlos
Thank you both for the info. I should be doing the switch in a day or 2 so I will let you know how it goes.
I must say if that is all that needs to be configured its a far cry from what happens when you switch a windows formtted HD.
Thanks Again!
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:31 pm
by carlos
Well good news. The first transfer of the hard drive has gone very well. I originally had an older model Toshiba and basically got a newer one.
They were similarly specked, but some of the subsystems were a bit different. The only real adjustment needed was video resolution.
The next test will be when I transfer the drive to an IBM r40. Hopefully that will happen on the weekend.
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:46 am
by Husse
This is interesting - I'll eagerly await the "IBM report"
(mostly posted to get this into my posts so I find it again
)
Re: moving hard drive
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:05 am
by k.newstead
Hey have done something very similar from a toshiba sp6100 (don't buy - nothing but trouble) to my IBM X20 ultraportable. Have got it to boot into recovery mode but I don't know how to reconfigure the X11 file to get to GUI (xfce in my case)
If anyone more technically sophisticated could point me in the right direction I'd be really greatful
Don't really have the option to reinstall as have no CDROM
cheers
Re: moving hard drive
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:44 pm
by Fred
Did you not correct the changed UUIDs, or were you not using UUID?
Fred
EDIT: Never mind.... dumb question.