if swapping hard drive... its plug and play?

[NiceCold]

computerA has problem and want to know if hard drive is the problem. if i take off hard drive from working computerB and put it on computerA.... then after it is concluded..... will computerB be able to work normal like plug and play when i retrieve its hard drive back? or once i put its hard drive back i must reconfigure system settings?

 

[Nothinman]

With any recent Linux installation you should be able to move it around without much hassle.

If you're talking Windows, it varies by release with XP being very problematic and Vista/Win7 being better but still not being simple. Sometimes it works, sometimes a repair install is needed and sometimes it just plain won't work. The only way to know for sure is to try it and see what happens.

 

[NiceCold]

i still use my computerB. so it is risky to try to pull out my working hdd from a working computerB to my not-working computerA?

risk =
not guarantee that computerB will work normal after putting its hard drive back on?

 

[curlysir]

If computers are not similar motherboards, processors, video cards, etc. you stand a very good chance of screwing up both computers. You need to have a backup of both hard drives before you begin. You could pull the hard drive from computer A and install in computer B and test the drive for problems. This will not tell you if your operating system is bad but you could check your hard drive for errors.

More details on each system would help!

 

[Jawadali]

If you want to check if the hard drive is the problem, it may help to test using a LiveCD or LiveUSB Linux distribution.

The Ubuntu Linux download page walks you through this process:

http://www.ubuntu.com/download

If the system seems to work fine via a LiveCD or LiveUSB, the problem may lie with the hard drive (or the operating system/configuration currently on the hard drive).

 

[NiceCold]

the problemed computerA having blue screen when boot.... ever since i use ubuntu to just surf and nothing more.

but while using ubuntu i notice some flaws....

- when entering hdd via ubuntu it says cannot mount something something

- risk of browser crash when streaming videos.... especially stream in hd have higher chance of browser crash


what is this signs telling? bad hard drive? or it just ubuntu?






problemed computerA:
dell pentium 4

working computerB
emachines athlon X2 4400+