T30 drive in T23

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NCRick · #1 Post by **NCRick** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:05 pm

Hey
Will a loaded drive from a T30 run in a T23? My son lost his video and I have a spare T23 I was thinking he could drop the drive in and keep going ?
Any Ideas?
Rick

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:20 pm

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I've never personally tried it, but my guess would be that you'd get a "blue screen" since the hardware between the systems are fairly different. Best case is that the drive will boot and you will have to load a couple of drivers; worst case is that the drive will boot AND you will have to re-activate Windows because it detects too many changes and assumes you've (rightly) loaded it on another machine. This may or may not happen depending upon the version of Windows that came on the T30.

NCRick · #3 Post by **NCRick** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:33 pm

Well I did it and I'm glad to say it worked ,only need to validate windows but everything else worked
Rick

cmarti · #4 Post by **cmarti** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:28 pm

NCRick wrote:Well I did it and I'm glad to say it worked ,only need to validate windows but everything else worked
Rick

You just swap the drives with nothing else done?

NCRick · #5 Post by **NCRick** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:15 pm

Yes ,We pulled a T30 hd and put it in a T23 ,everything worked !!
Just had to validated windows

T30 drive in T23

T30 drive in T23

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