Greets, all:Just curious as to whether or not this is a good move.I've had an 'older' PC that I use solely as my WideFS platform (i.e., for running ActiveSky, FlightKeeper, FSCommander, Radar Contact, etc.).I just lucked out in that I brought another PC -- with a bit more horsepower -- home from the office to replace the other one. Here's my question.The boot drive on the one I brought home is the same speed as the one on the 'older' WideFS PC. Since I already have all the aforementioned programs already loaded and configured for all my WideFS needs, would it be harmful to simply yank that boot drive out and replace the boot drive on the 'newer' one I brought home?It wouldn't be the end of the world if I couldn't do it; re-installing and re-configuring all the WideFS apps would take some time, but not that much. But it would volumes easier if I could just move the whole kit and caboodle over and be able to instantly take advantage of the increased horsepower.Anyone know if it's a good idea to do this, or even possible? Any pitfalls to avoid?Thanks a bunch for any information.

Hello,Can be a stupid question : why not install the "old" driver (from the old PC) as master in the new PC and configure the "new" driver as "slave" and keep 2 drivers?

Emile:Oh, that's definitely a possibility. But retaining the 'newer' drive is not really the problem. I'm more concerned with incompatibilities resulting from merely making the 'older' hard drive the boot drive on the newer PC (e.g., motherboard drivers, etc.).I wonder if anyone has ever done this.

You're concern about the mobo chipset drivers (and drivers in general) is a valid one. Unless the two boxes are very similar, the new one probably won't boot with the older drive. Or, if it will boot, it could well be quite a mess to clean up. But, if it doesn't work nothing is really lost as you can always just take the old drive out again.Doug

W2DR:Roger that. That makes sense to me; I thought it might be a mess to clean up.I think that I'll just reformat the 'newer' PC and just re-install the WideClient-enabled apps this weekend. Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours and it will be worth having the extra speed.Thanks to everyone for their feedback!

This upgrade guide might be useful to you.Regards,Greg

ISTM that as long as you use the same HAL on both systems, it should be possible to simply move the drive. It probably would be good to go into safe mode first and wipe out all the peripherals, and then try to boot safe mode in the new hardware. If that goes OK boot normally and see if the hardware is recognized, then clean up any exclamation marks in the device manager. If your windows is an OEM install, instead of a retail version, you might have a no-go in actvivation. You might also have problems with an OEM if windows wants to access the install disk.If you do have a windows install disk, you might want to build a BartPE disk that you can boot from to troubleshoot if the moved drive won't boot later.scott s..