Because it has all of the wrong drivers, Windows will act quite odd, and possibly not boot. It has, however been designed to protect your physical pc.
Sincerely,
Jacob Smith
> On Jun 28, 2014, at 2:36 PM, V Vishwanathan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> HI ALL,
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> Thinking that my hdd (with win xp pro) was dead I switched over to a new one
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> and installed win8.
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> Now I have a feeling that the xp hdd may have some life.
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> I have 4 sata ports in my mobo and one is used by win8.
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> Suppose I hook up the xp hdd to the 2nd sata port and power it on
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> would I be able to test (after modifying the BIOS) my hunch or would I screw up the whole system.?
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> Any other suggestions would be greatefully acknowledged.
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> tks a lot
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> Venkat
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