On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:11:37AM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
I want to move my wife's operating system to another computer so that should involve a simple 'move the hard drive' operation shouldn't it? Wrong!
Very wrong I would have thought, during the installation process the hardware of your computer is probed and appropriate drivers are installed and configuration settings made.
Trying to boot exactly the same configuration in different hardware *might* work if you're lucky (it has done once for me) but it's certainly not guaranteed.
Any ideas would be very welcome.
Do a proper installation of the OS you want on "the other computer" and then move the files you need across from your wife's hard drive. At the simplest level just copy across the contents of /home (taking appropriate action to install the required users).