Dragongirl
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Does anyone know, if you remove a HD with windows on it and install that HD in another computer, if you can then run windows on the new computer?
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Brown Jenkin
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Yes you will be able to, but (yes there is always something) the first time you run it will take awhile as it has to change all of its drivers to match the new hardware. Additionally you may also need to have driiver CDs or dowload some things since Windows does not have every driver already in it. Included in this is the posibility of needing the Windows CD if the cab files are not already on your HD. Hope this helps, good luck.
Dragongirl
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Thanks. I was re-installing Windows 98 and evidently the CD is corrupted since it can't find certain files on the CD to install. So now I am stuck on my old computer until I find a way of getting an OS on my new computer.
Brown Jenkin
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Have you looked to see if the cab files were installed originally. If so you can point to them instead of the CD. Start->Find->Files or Folders: Search for *.cab then when the program asks for the CD type in the location of the cab files instead.
Dragongirl
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I am afraid I deleted the old windows directory before I started the re-install. Going to have to risk ruining my old computer by taking out the HD or get someone to give me an OS disk ehhe.
Brown Jenkin
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Sorry I can't be of more help but there are a few to many states between us. Maybe its just my freinds but every gaming group I've been in has at least one computer savvy person. Hopefully you have such a friend or two who could help more.
Saeviomagy
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How dead is the CD? Can't read any of the contents, or just the windows installer fails to run?
If you're lucky, you might still be able to copy the contents onto something else (your HD, a CD etc), and you might not have any problems.
Apart from that, shifting the HD across will work, to a point.
That point is - if you don't have the windows CD, and you have any hardware on the new PC that has microsoft-supplied drivers for it, then you won't be able to install the drivers for it.
Just be thankful you're not Australian. Microsoft put something on windows XP over here which makes you phone them up anytime your hardware changes...
If you're lucky, you might still be able to copy the contents onto something else (your HD, a CD etc), and you might not have any problems.
Apart from that, shifting the HD across will work, to a point.
That point is - if you don't have the windows CD, and you have any hardware on the new PC that has microsoft-supplied drivers for it, then you won't be able to install the drivers for it.
Just be thankful you're not Australian. Microsoft put something on windows XP over here which makes you phone them up anytime your hardware changes...
Dragongirl
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The CD does 2 different things when I have tried to install it.
1) Scans the computer HD, then gets ready to setup and says it can't find......think it was setup.dll.
or
2) Gets all the way to starting to install files and starts not being able to find files. First one is text which I skip, then an INF file which I skip since I have no choice, then a third one, forget what it is. But it won't let me skip it.
If you delete files while in DOS, is there a way of restoring them from DOS? Thought maybe I could try to restore what would be left of my old windows.
1) Scans the computer HD, then gets ready to setup and says it can't find......think it was setup.dll.
or
2) Gets all the way to starting to install files and starts not being able to find files. First one is text which I skip, then an INF file which I skip since I have no choice, then a third one, forget what it is. But it won't let me skip it.
If you delete files while in DOS, is there a way of restoring them from DOS? Thought maybe I could try to restore what would be left of my old windows.
Simplicity
Explorer
Windows 95 does this all the time. It's really annoying.
The file it's looking for IS there. You just have to find it and
point to it. Search through the directories on the CD for the file
or for a CAB file that shows up in the file browser.
I think the file on the hard disk is usually in Windows\System or something. And on the CD it's in i386\... something... It's been
so long, I can hardly remember. I do remember that "feature" in
windows 95 driving me batty though.
Just search through the directories until you find a file that the
install program will accept.
The file it's looking for IS there. You just have to find it and
point to it. Search through the directories on the CD for the file
or for a CAB file that shows up in the file browser.
I think the file on the hard disk is usually in Windows\System or something. And on the CD it's in i386\... something... It's been
so long, I can hardly remember. I do remember that "feature" in
windows 95 driving me batty though.
Just search through the directories until you find a file that the
install program will accept.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
Explorer
Saeviomagy said:
They originally had that on all of them. I believe they scaled it back somewhat, though. The lab computer only makes me call when I make fairly significant changes.
Dragongirl- who built your new computer? And who supplied the Win98 CD? Sounds like you're may be dealing with a custom company configuration on one end or the other. My old Compaq, for example, could not be upgraded to a new version of Windows because it was a special Compaq-only license. It manifested as "Missing necessary files" or some term like that. I won't tell you all the B.S. I went through trying to resolve it, as there are tenuous legalities involved.
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