I have a work at home computer which I had custom built a couple of years ago. It consists of coolermaster mid tower case Gigabyte 945p-s3 motherboard NVDIA GeForce 7300 LE Graphics card NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics card intel E6700 2.7 ghz process 4 gb pc5300 ddr2-667 ram 2 250gb sata hard drives 1 DVD ROM drive 1 CD-RW burner Win XP professional OS The system came with two hard drives; one of which was intended to be maintained as clone of the primary and is normally off. I'm thinking of building a box myself which would provide equal or better performance than the above, but dispense with the dual monitors and since I don't use the spare hard which is rack mounted with key switch, I would transfer it to the new box. The notion of interchangeable hard drives has some appeal, because then I could easily move one system to the other simply by swapping out hard drives. However, since some of the other components will not be the same is this a realistic tactic. What is going to happen when I install my existing cloned hd into the new box and boot it up?
Ok, I bought on of these "http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...73631&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_5032wt_783" I've had to order a new power supply. I have a couple of extra CD ROMS so I'm all set. I'm just going to plug in my spare hard drive and boot it up.
On further research I've discovered that booting a new computer with an old hard drive with XP installed is NOT recommended. If you want to know more about this, you can go here Changing a Motherboard or Moving I wouldn't want anyone to make the mistake I was about to make.:O
