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| Authored by: Wol on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 08:29 AM EST |
Probable cause? Dunno how easy it'l be for you to fix it, but the problem is
almost certainly specialist device drivers.
You need to downgrade or delete the dedicated video card driver (go back to
640x480 display), and quite possibly a bunch of other drivers. THEN take your
hard drive image.
Then, you might be able to boot.
Oh - and don't say linux is any better. Most DISTROS are better, true, but tha's
because it's no trouble to build modular support for pretty much all hardware
into the kernel, and it probes on boot to know which modules to load. SLOW.
Which is why people (including gentoo freaks like me :-) compile their own
kernels with few modules - most of my hardware support is compiled directly into
the kernel. Oh - and if I tried to move hard disks between machines there is a
very good chance I'll get a panicking kernel.
But then, I know what I'm doing (most of the time :-)
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 02:13 PM EST |
Try using either Acronis backup or Symantec Backup Exec System Restore. Both
have the ability to restore a backed up system to different hardware by
replacing device drivers on the fly during the restore process.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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