Moving your Hard drive to another box

[AussieLinuxman]

Hi there... just wanted to share the transferring of my original hard drive to another computer, as the original computer popped it's cork. After installing the original drive in the new computer and booting, I couldn't see grub, XP, or the PcLOS that I have been using for a few months. Everything originally was working great,  the computer blew up (old one anyway), just transferred the drive over, and now no booting of any grub.OK.... here's how the problem was solved:

1. Booted from the original XP CD and chose the 'Second' repair provision which fixed the XP boot.(left my files intact)
2. Booted then from the PCLinuxOS 2010 live CD, did a fresh desktop install of PcLOS 'without formatting anything' which also reinstalled grub, rebooted and grub came up with my XP and PcLinux choices again.... everything seems OK so far...  

Basically didn't have to do any re-selecting partitions, settings etc. It worked for me, I hope it works for you!!

[Old-Polack]

AussieLinuxman:

If you have occasion to do that again, take the time to stop off at the BIOS to first make sure the drive is properly recognized, then be sure it's set as the boot drive. After that, on reboot the existing grub should be seen and you should be able to boot normally. You may boot to a command line if the video card is greatly different from the one in the old computer, but you can run PCC, as root, in the ncurses version, to set the display to use the proper driver for the "new" video card, after which you should be able to do a normal boot to the GUI desktop. No reinstalling necessary.

[AussieLinuxman]

Thanks for that old-polack, I didn't even think of that..... that is exactly what I shall do next time, and there will be a next time as I am going into repairing Linux, Apple and, (bread and butter) Windows, in that order. Funny how one forgets to use the basics in a time of crisis.... thanks again for the straighten.... 

[Jeddaboy]

Ahhhh !!! Ya beat me to it OP!! 

[Old-Polack]

Ahhhh !!! Ya beat me to it OP!! 

Only by a month... 

[uncleV]

O-P is fast!

Or Jeddaboy just wrote his answer during a whole month?


 

[smileeb]

  Maybe jeddaboy is a slow reader or is it a slow writer. 

[lucid_dream]

Or Jeddaboy just wrote his answer during a whole month?
 

The bacon is in the pan but no one turned on the heat