RE: 600X - Hardware

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From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 14:13:50 EST


On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:18:34 -0800, Michael Geary wrote:

>What OS are you running? That's what determines the answer to most of these
>questions.
>
>I've moved Windows 2000 from a 600E to an A20p with no problems at all. The
>600X is very nearly the same hardware as the A20p/A21p, with the exception
>of the video chip, so I'd expect you'd have a very smooth transition with
>Windows 2000.

Windows 2000.
>
>Go to IBM's website and get all the drivers for the 600X before you move the
>drive, and run all the .EXEs so they expand out into the C:\DRIVERS
>directory. (Rename the old version of this directory out of the way first.)
>Then you'll be ready to install the new drivers the 600X requires.
>
Just did that, as I found there's also some updates relevant to my 600E as well.

>What you really ought to do is get a Second Hard Drive Adapter and use Ghost
>or any equivalent program to clone your existing drive onto the drive that
>comes with the 600X. Then you'll have a full backup in case anything goes
>wrong.
>

I have that adapter, and I thought about just doing that instead. I also
bought Powerquest Drive Copy 4.0 (slower than Ghost, at least I thought so,
but seemed to work better in my case), so I might just do that, just to be on the
safe side.

Paul


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