I'm using Ubuntu Feisty, and I have a laptop that I think I'm going to
have replaced with a new one (because it died at 3 months old, and I'm
in California...yay for lemon laws!), and I want to put its hard drive
into the new laptop. But I'm unsure of what will happen and/or anything
special I need to do to make this work, because I've never done this before.

The current laptop dual boots Feisty and windoze, but I never actually
boot into 'doze [and really don't care about losing its partition. It's
Vista, by the way]. Ideally, I'd just like to pop the existing hard
drive from laptop #1 into laptop #2, turn the power on, and be up and
running. Will that happen? What about my grub menu?

What, if anything, will I need to do to be back up and running?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Hi

WCJ schrieb:

> Ideally, I'd just like to pop the existing hard
> drive from laptop #1 into laptop #2, turn the power on, and be up and
> running. Will that happen? What about my grub menu?

If the hardware matches (SATA vs. IDE , etc) nothing will break
irreversibly. Without knowing about Ubuntu, I would say, grub menu
will show up. The worst things that may happen:

a) due to wrong graphic drivers the GUI won't start

b) since the network card is different, no Internet.

You'll have to repair that on the command line, like editing a config.
file and restarting.

> What, if anything, will I need to do to be back up and running?

You have your irreplaceble data backed up any way, haven't you?
;->

VR

Visvanath Ratnaweera wrote:
>> Ideally, I'd just like to pop the existing hard
>> drive from laptop #1 into laptop #2, turn the power on, and be up and
>> running. Will that happen? What about my grub menu?

> If the hardware matches (SATA vs. IDE , etc) nothing will break
> irreversibly. Without knowing about Ubuntu, I would say, grub menu
> will show up. The worst things that may happen:
>
> a) due to wrong graphic drivers the GUI won't start
>
> b) since the network card is different, no Internet.
>
> You'll have to repair that on the command line, like editing a config.
> file and restarting.

The hardware will be identical (i.e., the exact same laptop), so
[hopefully!] none of this should be an issue.


>> What, if anything, will I need to do to be back up and running?

> You have your irreplaceble data backed up any way, haven't you?

Why, yes! I do. However, it's the reinstalling, tweaking,
fine-tuning of Linux that I don't want to do. I had things working
exactly the way I wanted them and really have no desire to start over
again from scratch.

Thanks for your input.

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On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:34:35 -0700, WCJ wrote:

> I'm using Ubuntu Feisty, and I have a laptop that I think I'm going to
> have replaced with a new one (because it died at 3 months old, and I'm
> in California...yay for lemon laws!), and I want to put its hard drive
> into the new laptop. But I'm unsure of what will happen and/or anything
> special I need to do to make this work, because I've never done this before.
>
> The current laptop dual boots Feisty and windoze, but I never actually
> boot into 'doze [and really don't care about losing its partition. It's
> Vista, by the way]. Ideally, I'd just like to pop the existing hard
> drive from laptop #1 into laptop #2, turn the power on, and be up and
> running. Will that happen? What about my grub menu?
>
> What, if anything, will I need to do to be back up and running?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.

As long as the hardware is very similar - like the same model - there
should really be no problem with Linux. MS, on the other hand, will throw
fits.

WCJ <bogus.fake@no.spam.com> writes:
>However, it's the reinstalling, tweaking,
>fine-tuning of Linux that I don't want to do. I had things working
>exactly the way I wanted them and really have no desire to start over
>again from scratch.

In that case, back up the system, too.

When the disk fails, start a rescue disk, partition the new disk to
your desire, restore the system and data backups, and install the boot
loader, and you are ready to go.

- anton
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