Sunday, October 4, 2009

Proprietary computers and windows 2k?

I had a computer, very slow, which was a compaq. It was 500mhz, and i had win2k on the drive. Well, i gave the computer to my sister, and kept the drive. She had a drive to put in it. Well, i went to hook up the drive that was in the compaq to my current system, a 1.6ghz system. surprise! it won't access the disk.



Anyone know why it happens like that sometimes, when proprietary computers (brand name systems like compaq, HP, Dell, etc) configure windows differently than a homemade system? I assume that's what happens, that windows writes differently to the hdd, so that's why i can't read the hard drive with my current system.



The drive is in great shape. No errors or anything.



Proprietary computers and windows 2k?noton



Well the answer is relatively simple. Ok, when you have a hard drive (HD) on your computer, the system BIOS writes the host computer information on the HD, so no other computer can access it. But, in public school computers, the story is different. Because all of the computers are supposed to be the same brand, system, etc, we can swap HD's when one becomes damaged. Good Luck!

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