Ben Myers wrote:

If you plan on long-term use of the working Vostro 1400, install the drivers, of course.

One does not necessarily have to use a system with the same model to resurrect data, provided one has the right tools at hand... Ben

On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 4:32:28 PM UTC-5, Ron Hardin wrote:
I swapped a HD from a failed Vostro 1400 into a
working (but slower) Vostro 1400 and it worked
okay, thinking it was the failed machine.

Except found new hardware comes up on boot, which
I just cancel.

I needed the failed machine to resurrect with its
data, is the reason for the swap.

Actually it stays up 24/7 for a year at a time, backing up the main machine every
night and sending it on to idrive.com, so the message doesn't come up much.

Everything is Cygwin under XP run by thousands of shell scripts.

A version of Cygwin, unfortunately, that sometimes breaks intel wifi drivers and the
idrive system by getting process termination signals screwed up, but not so often that
it can't be lived with.

If you upgrade Cygwin then other stuff stops working. Like they changed the bash
syntax just for starters.

So it's all avoiding bit rot.
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