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What is with my computer today?
What is with my computer today?
technogab said:Unfortunately you cant move it to another PC. Not to plug Mac's here, but I just imaged a Mac the other day, and you can take a drive out of a completely different model and throw it in another Mac and it boots up no problem! It doesnt even have to configure the new hardware, it just works. Even if it's a different platform. I took a drive out of a G5 and put it in a G4 and it booted no problem just as if I were on the G5(it ran a little slower of course) but it does work. You can even use an external Firwire drive and carry your OS with you from Mac to Mac.
I wish Windows could do this, because that is a great feature. I've been in your situation many of times, and GHOST is great, but only if you are using the same exact type of PC.
technogab said:Unfortunately you cant move it to another PC. Not to plug Mac's here, but I just imaged a Mac the other day, and you can take a drive out of a completely different model and throw it in another Mac and it boots up no problem! It doesnt even have to configure the new hardware, it just works. Even if it's a different platform. I took a drive out of a G5 and put it in a G4 and it booted no problem just as if I were on the G5(it ran a little slower of course) but it does work. You can even use an external Firwire drive and carry your OS with you from Mac to Mac.
I wish Windows could do this, because that is a great feature. I've been in your situation many of times, and GHOST is great, but only if you are using the same exact type of PC.
technogab said:Actually it wont work on ME either. You cant take an image from a PII and put it in a different PIII PC. The hardware profiles would be different and plug n play goes nuts to try and get the correct drivers and configure everything. It may try to start up and detect new hardware such as new chipsets and such, but it will either fail, or take forever to try and configure everything and multiple reboots would be required. Mac's dont do that at all, they just boot up into the OS just as if you were on the PC the hard drive came from, even if it has different hardware specs such as video cards, USB ports, Firewire, modems etc.
This is a big advantage a Mac has over a PC. If you sell your Mac, or buy a new one, you can just copy your hard drive to an external drive, then plug the external drive into the new Mac, and copy the hard drive over, and it's as if you were working on the original computer again. Or if you want, you don't even have to copy everything over, you can run the entire OS off the external drive.
technogab said:That was exactly what I said
"It may try to start up and detect new hardware such as new chipsets and such, but it will either fail, or take forever to try and configure everything and multiple reboots would be required. "
My point is, that most likely it will fail. But you may get lucky after multiple reboots. It's by no means a seamless operation. And it's where you cross your fingers and hope "Plug n Pray" works.
On the bright side, at least on ME you wont get the BSOD