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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (7947)	6/19/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>would not boot. unless the hardware and resource config were virtually indentical... I've successfully booted NT system disks in new machines where the only real item in common was the fact that the disks were IDE. Different processor, different memory, different mobo, different vid card, different sound card, different scsi card, different network card, different position on the IDE controllers, what else is there? This is, in fact, the way I resuscitated my primary domain controller, by physically removing the NT server system disk from the dead system and inserting it (in a different IDE controller position, incidentally) on one of my new Celeron systems. Booted right up. Naturally I had a lot of reconfiguration to do and network domain games to play and a headache from the VGA driver. I did NOT select the VGA emergency boot, btw - the kernel apparently recognized the config change and loaded the VGA driver all by itself. Booted first time, though. That's only one example. I've done it several times in the past few months in various contexts. I have noticed that since service pack 3 NT has gotten pretty darn smart about booting in an entirely different environment. With SP 2 and earlier, damn thing would give me a BSOD if I added a hard drive (on account of my damfool assignment of G: as the NT system partition, I've always believed). Spots