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trying to move a HDD from one laptop to another using NT 4 SP5

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bugabo

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Hi,
Yet, I'm yet another newbie to the forum, so I hope I'm posting this is the correct area. I have a laptop with a harddrive with bunch of applications. I just received a new model of the laptop (Old IBM 600E new IBM T20). The Harddrive fits fine in the new laptop, it boot fine all of the applications work fine. But, it stay in VGA mode. The video drivers are different between the laptops. I have download and applied the video driver. I can get the laptop to stay in hires (1024x768) for about 2 mins. but then it goes back to VGA. I have gone to the microsoft website and it told me about verifying some registry entries all seems ok. Can anyone suggest some other options. I have NT4 SP5.

If I take a scratch harddrive and install NT4 and the driver, everything work fine. But, because I have so many applications, I don't want to do a scratch install.

Thank you for the help
 
It's not only the videodriver is different, also the system devices like IDE controller etc.

Perhaps you can install nt4 over your existing installation but I doubt that NT will survive that operation. (I had some bad experience with that)
 
I've read about it here and there, and basically you can change all the drivers you can find to generic ones. Generic video adapter, generic IDE drivers, with those you'd probably be okay. SUO would know though, he's usually around here.
 
Thanks for the help. I just download the latest IBM T20 IDE drivers and applied it. I also reapplied the video driver. Still running into the same problem. Would you have any other thoughts? I'll try to see if I can reach SUO
 
try uninstalling the old stuff first, in safe mode. then eradicate any trace of the files associated with them. and registry keys (if you're feeling brave, but i would try without doing that first).

then install the new stuff.
 
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