Installing an OS on a hard drive OUTSIDE of the desired computer

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Ritchie888

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Hey guys,

Hopefully a straight forward question. I have an old laptop (11 years), here's a list of the things it cant do:
1) boot from USB
2) boot from CD/DVD (probably because it doesn't have an optical drive)
3) do pretty much anything else

Using a 3.5" to 2.5" converter and an IDE cable I have used my desktop here at work to install a clean version of xubuntu on a 20GB IDE HDD using a disc (the conventional way).

My question is, when I take this HDD and wack it in my laptop at home tonight will everything work A-OK?

Have all I done is installed the OS using this method or are there hardware configuration problems that I'm going to run into?

Cheers,
Ritchie
 
If you have installed the os on a hard drive already it will be affiliated with the hardware that you installed it with. So sorry to say but that will not work.

You might be able to get around it by downloading the iso file again to your laptop and mounting it to a virtual drive via damen tools or some other program like that. That might let it boot but there is a possibility that when it shuts down to set up the files, it will no longer recognize the virtual drive and the install will not work.

I wish that I had a better method that I know would work, hopefully someone else has another opinion on this!

Good luck

oh and +1 for Ubuntu!
 
With a laptop of that age I would say it wont work the hardware inside is just to old to handle something like that I would think.
 
It worked.

Got it home and everything booted up as I would have hoped. Didn't need to do anything with drivers either. Just did a package update and everything is A-OK.
 
Ritchie888 said:
It worked.

Got it home and everything booted up as I would have hoped. Didn't need to do anything with drivers either. Just did a package update and everything is A-OK.
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You are one of the lucky ones, usually you will need to either repair/reinstall Windows if you move the hard drive from one computer to another.
 
[-0MEGA-];1453835 said:
You are one of the lucky ones, usually you will need to either repair/reinstall Windows if you move the hard drive from one computer to another.
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It was Linux though. Heard from some other people that Linux is more 'move-able' friendly, due to the fact that you can install it on USB pen drives these days and boot from them.
 
Ritchie888 said:
It was Linux though. Heard from some other people that Linux is more 'move-able' friendly, due to the fact that you can install it on USB pen drives these days and boot from them.
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That's why then, if it was Windows you would have encountered some issues.
 
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