HDD To HDD Question

[Maxil223]

Lets say I cant afford an operating system. Would I be able to take my blank harddrive to my friends house and back up his harddrive and get his OS. I know there is the whole problem with wrong drivers, but cant I just use a program to clear the drivers??? I thought I saw someone post a drivercleaner yesterday.

 

[stevty2889]

Of course the other problem would be if it is windows XP..the whole activation thing would flag, since you would have entirely different hardware, I don't think microsoft would like you pirating their software...

 

[Maxil223]

its not windows XP, its either windows2000 or ME, i can pick

 

[Kasper4christ]

still
thats pirating

um.. how can you NOT afford an OS? look at your system specs..
did you lie to us?

 

[Googer]

Dude NewEgg has XP homefor $89, If you cannot afford it or are so cheap that you dont want to buy it; maybe it time you give up this hobby for
good. Because it's just one big Assed money Pit that loves to swollow Grants and Benjamans whole.

Or go linux for free, with win4lin or WINe windows emulations.

 

[Googer]

oh, by the way if its XP you want to copy, forget about it. It does not boot onece copied to a new or differant computer. There are hacks avalable most of them are manual and technical so I am not going to tell you how to do it. Just payfor it, its less than the cost of buying 1 copy of doom and half-life2 togheter.


How about selling one of those Mushkin 512's on ebay and using the cash twords xp? You don't need that much. and ditching one Mouule would give you a double performance boost, because with three modules on a dual-channel system causes it to operate in single channel mode at HIGHER LATENCY. So you now have a three-way bottle neck Get rid of one.

 

[phillc]

Linux is free, how can you not afford that? All you need is a net connection and a blank CD...

Hell, you can order CDs for like $5.