Is there any problem with switching hard drives or images between notebook PCs? The two units are the exact same model with pre-installed OS, so I'm hoping that there should not be any activision issues. I'd like to keep them in different cities and just bring the data back and forth occasionally.
Swapping Laptops
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ddrueding
Fixture
You may need to reactivate every time. The NIC MAC and CPU ID are some of the things that are checked, and they will be different.
Stereodude
Not really a
Your Adobe applications will certainly not be happy.
No, I use an older version.
The old notebook was cheap. I can't help but give it a try. I forgot to mention that the OS is XP. There are both XP and Vista restore DVDs. If it does not work out I may install Win 7 since there are drivers available. (The series was discontinued only in February.)
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
You might get better results with using some virtualization and transport the VM back and forth.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
We sometimes have dead laptop issue here and we swap the hard drive into another of the exact same model. XP boots without issue and there is no activation that I remember.
I think you can do it.
I think you can do it.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
XP might not have activation because the version of Windows you're using doesn't have activation.
It is still struggling, but getting there. I'm really wondering about the HD. It sounds raspy and the HDTach read rate is only 39 MB/sec. Seek time is 19.5 sec.
Bluetooth is not recognized. I guess each one is uniquely different. WI-FI is picking up the Mormon 6 channel, so that is probably working.
Bluetooth is not recognized. I guess each one is uniquely different. WI-FI is picking up the Mormon 6 channel, so that is probably working.
ddrueding
Fixture
This is the other computer that you were trying to switch to? What is the spec?
Which spec? It is XP.
ddrueding
Fixture
Does this machine have the same CPU/RAM/HDD as the machine you are comparing it to?
uke-r:
ddrueding
Fixture
Well, that drive certainly is some crap. The CPU (1.2Ghz) isn't exactly a screamer, either. Amazing that those specs would be combined with 4GB of RAM...
time
Storage? I am Storage!
Not at all. The extra RAM allows more data cache which means less disk accesses - obviously a good idea in this case ...
The Lenovo X300 used this ultra-low-power CPU in the interests of exceptional battery runtime. However, it also came with an SSD drive that makes the overall package quite usable. Is this a bastardized X300?
In any case, there's no way it should take any XP machine several minutes to boot, regardless of how poor the disk subsystem is. Lunar, you need to reload it without the crap. You may as well be running Vista with that sort of terminal sluggishness.
The Lenovo X300 used this ultra-low-power CPU in the interests of exceptional battery runtime. However, it also came with an SSD drive that makes the overall package quite usable. Is this a bastardized X300?
In any case, there's no way it should take any XP machine several minutes to boot, regardless of how poor the disk subsystem is. Lunar, you need to reload it without the crap. You may as well be running Vista with that sort of terminal sluggishness.
They were new ~$2K models in the 12" <3 lb. class exactly 2 years ago. 2-4GB RAM was typical with Vista and the XP was a free downgrade option on DVD. The later versions had the 1.4GHz CPU.
Obviously the previous installation was full of crap (I saw something about Norton eventually). I was able to re-image it and the computer is fairly normal, though I will have to replace some apps that cannot be used in multiple systems.
ddrueding
Fixture
I agree with the sentiment, but in my experience it doesn't play out that way in XP. 7 does a great job of it.
ddrueding
Fixture
Ah, that makes quite a difference. What RAMdrive software are you using?
It is a simple one that just changes the registry settings.
I'm not sure if it is worth getting one of these drives. For sure there will be something better a few days later.
ddrueding
Fixture
I would be looking for 7200RPM and quite a bit more cache.
Yeah, I though about that drive. Yet I have a 500MB 7200.4 which is rather useless.
ddrueding
Fixture
Useless? That 140GB is that important?
I should have said that the upgrade from 500GB @ 5400 to the 7200.4 was useless. (There was no 640GB drive at the time.) I suspect that the newer 7200 RPM Hitachi is faster than the Seagate. However, I'm more interested in a 1TB drive now.
But the Dell is designed for it, no doubt. This computer has a standard 50-pin DVD-RAM.