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Colin Dean
Asked: 2012-09-03 17:55:52 +0800 CST

What precautions should I take when moving a hard drive from one computer to another?

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I'm planning to move a hard drive from one server machine to another. The hard drive is an IDE drive. The motherboards are different, as are the memory and such. In this instance, graphics isn't a problem because this is just Ubuntu Server.

Are there any precautions I should take, or steps I can do beforehand, in order to make this go as smoothly as possible? I've of course already backed up /home directories and configurations in /etc and /var.

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    I went through with the migration a little sooner than planned because of external factors.

    Note:

    • udev configuration of networking devices caused problems. I removed it and let it automatically reconfigure. I believe I moved from a Broadcom NIC to an Intel NIC.

    That was it! It was as simple as plug-and-play, in my case. I'm more than 24 hours into the switch and I've detected no errors.

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