Hard Drive Swap

[Guest Roger Fink]

I would like to remove the hard drive on my IBM laptop, which has Windows

2000 installed on it, and replace it with a hard drive which was removed

fromanother machine, same model 2682 R40, also running a freshly installed

Windows 2000. Undoubtedly there are some differences in the installed driver

versions, and the processor on the machine to be fitted is a Pentium 4M 2.0

rather than the 2.2 of the other machine. I'm pretty sure the two CD-DVD

combo drives are the same. The proprietary IBM software on the "blind"

partition that comes on a new machine is not installed on either machine.

 

Is it likely that once the replacement drive is installed the machine will

successfully boot up? If not, what, in general terms, would I need to do to

get it working? Am I stuck with a disk wipe/OS reinstall? TIA

[Guest Pat]

Re: Hard Drive Swap

 

It's likely that it will boot up. However, Best Practices dictate that any drive you use

be formatted and partitioned by the drive electronics it will be used in. Ignore that at

your own peril - a raw hard drive check that tries to fix something, or running a disk

defragmenter, risks destroying the HD.

 

My recommendation - buy a new HD and format in the target laptop from a boot disk. Then,

copy over all the files. Worst case, if it doesn't boot right, you've got the original

HD as a backup.

 

Make sure you label all three HD so you know which is which. I know, I know, you're

telling yourself you won't forget. Trust me, label them anyway.

 

 

"Roger Fink" wrote...

> I would like to remove the hard drive on my IBM laptop, which has Windows

> 2000 installed on it, and replace it with a hard drive which was removed

> fromanother machine, same model 2682 R40, also running a freshly installed

> Windows 2000. Undoubtedly there are some differences in the installed driver

> versions, and the processor on the machine to be fitted is a Pentium 4M 2.0

> rather than the 2.2 of the other machine. I'm pretty sure the two CD-DVD

> combo drives are the same. The proprietary IBM software on the "blind"

> partition that comes on a new machine is not installed on either machine.

>

> Is it likely that once the replacement drive is installed the machine will

> successfully boot up? If not, what, in general terms, would I need to do to

> get it working? Am I stuck with a disk wipe/OS reinstall? TIA

>

>

[Guest DL]

Re: Hard Drive Swap

 

Simply run a repair installation of win and install any drivers from their

cd's, NOT winupdate.

The cpu is unlikely to make any difference.

 

"Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message

news:O9oakWizHHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>I would like to remove the hard drive on my IBM laptop, which has Windows

> 2000 installed on it, and replace it with a hard drive which was removed

> fromanother machine, same model 2682 R40, also running a freshly installed

> Windows 2000. Undoubtedly there are some differences in the installed

> driver

> versions, and the processor on the machine to be fitted is a Pentium 4M

> 2.0

> rather than the 2.2 of the other machine. I'm pretty sure the two CD-DVD

> combo drives are the same. The proprietary IBM software on the "blind"

> partition that comes on a new machine is not installed on either machine.

>

> Is it likely that once the replacement drive is installed the machine will

> successfully boot up? If not, what, in general terms, would I need to do

> to

> get it working? Am I stuck with a disk wipe/OS reinstall? TIA

>

>

[Guest Roger Fink]

Re: Hard Drive Swap

 

I have a legit W2K disk, but since it's not not the laptop W2K disk, what

you are suggesting sounds, at a minimum, somewhat incomplete, since some of

the drivers required for basic laptop operation aren't on the disk. Since

all the latest drivers for this model running W2K are listed and available

for download in one location on the Lenovo site, what I think I could do

however is just upgrade from there provided I can boot up OK.

 

DL wrote:

> Simply run a repair installation of win and install any drivers from

> their cd's, NOT winupdate.

> The cpu is unlikely to make any difference.

>

> "Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message

> news:O9oakWizHHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>> I would like to remove the hard drive on my IBM laptop, which has

>> Windows 2000 installed on it, and replace it with a hard drive which

>> was removed fromanother machine, same model 2682 R40, also running a

>> freshly installed Windows 2000. Undoubtedly there are some

>> differences in the installed driver

>> versions, and the processor on the machine to be fitted is a Pentium

>> 4M

>> 2.0

>> rather than the 2.2 of the other machine. I'm pretty sure the two

>> CD-DVD combo drives are the same. The proprietary IBM software on

>> the "blind" partition that comes on a new machine is not installed

>> on either machine.

>>

>> Is it likely that once the replacement drive is installed the

>> machine will successfully boot up? If not, what, in general terms,

>> would I need to do to

>> get it working? Am I stuck with a disk wipe/OS reinstall? TIA

[Guest McGarill]

Re: Hard Drive Swap

 

Sometimes problems are so complicated as they seems.

I'd try to run a repair installation as DL suggested.

It should work, but if not you'll go back to the old 2K.

 

 

 

"Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message

news:u8hxRJlzHHA.4928@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> I have a legit W2K disk, but since it's not not the laptop W2K disk, what

> you are suggesting sounds, at a minimum, somewhat incomplete, since some

of

> the drivers required for basic laptop operation aren't on the disk. Since

> all the latest drivers for this model running W2K are listed and available

> for download in one location on the Lenovo site, what I think I could do

> however is just upgrade from there provided I can boot up OK.

>

> DL wrote:

> > Simply run a repair installation of win and install any drivers from

> > their cd's, NOT winupdate.

> > The cpu is unlikely to make any difference.

> >

> > "Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message

> > news:O9oakWizHHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> >> I would like to remove the hard drive on my IBM laptop, which has

> >> Windows 2000 installed on it, and replace it with a hard drive which

> >> was removed fromanother machine, same model 2682 R40, also running a

> >> freshly installed Windows 2000. Undoubtedly there are some

> >> differences in the installed driver

> >> versions, and the processor on the machine to be fitted is a Pentium

> >> 4M

> >> 2.0

> >> rather than the 2.2 of the other machine. I'm pretty sure the two

> >> CD-DVD combo drives are the same. The proprietary IBM software on

> >> the "blind" partition that comes on a new machine is not installed

> >> on either machine.

> >>

> >> Is it likely that once the replacement drive is installed the

> >> machine will successfully boot up? If not, what, in general terms,

> >> would I need to do to

> >> get it working? Am I stuck with a disk wipe/OS reinstall? TIA

>

>