On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:34:55PM +0100, Craig Earnshaw wrote: > Does anyone have any experience of changing the Hardware Abstraction > Layer (HAL) on a Windows 2000 machine? Craig, in my experience, getting a windows hard drive to boot on a different machine than it was installed on is more work than it should be.[1][2] I think your best bet is to try to get your hands on a computer the same make and model, if the company went through a large enough vendor to call their computers "makes" and "models". Another possibility is VMware -- it is probably different than the machines you have in your lab, and since it can be downloaded very easily, you are likely to have better speed with this. www.vmware.com. (Whether or not an emulator is legitimate is another matter entirely.) Good luck. [1]: it is for this reason that I recommend a fresh install of windows on every machine -- no OS 'upgrade versions' ever, and always re-install when a new motherboard is involved. [2]: my friends corroborate me on this -- I once popped one motherboard out and threw in a completely different one on my Linux box, and my friends stood in awe as everything worked perfectly. This was contrary to their hundreds of experiences with windows machines, which get upset over the smallest matters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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