If I am correct, you cannot simply move NT disk to another PC without
re-install NT, unless the two PCs are identical. Whoever told you that "it
should be fine" is wrong, with win98 you can do it, win95 doesn't always, NT as
far as I know, the answer is NO. I didn't try this on Win2000 (I prefer to call
it NT5), so if win2000 can do this, that "local builder" might be right.

If you have backup, it's time to rebuild your system, if not, you may face that
your NT disk may not work even you put it back to original box (if you have a
updated emergency repair disk, you can save your harddisk in original box).

Good luck.

Jun Qian

David Williams wrote:

> My workstation at the agency I work for is long due an update (PII 266) and
> my boss just OK'd me for a replacement.  The replacement is an 800Mhz PIII
> and I thought that I could simply remove the hard drives from the existing
> workstation, install them in the new PC, go into CMOS to get the system to
> recognize the drives and go!   WRONG!  I get as far as the initial blue
> screen which says windows NT version, Service Pack amount of memory etc and
> it hangs!   I have spoken to our local system builder and he says it should
> work fine!

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