Dear list members, I recently acquired an older Packard Bell P90 which had the HD out of it - the price was right - it was free. I have upgraded it to 40 Meg and installed a spare Maxtor 340 HD that I had. It all runs fine. The PB has the following specs: Pentium 90 PCI architecture PCI/ISA Riser Card AMI system BIOS Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 Video I am currently running Win 95a on my 486 which has the following specs: Intel 486 DX2-66 - ACER ACROS system ISA architecture VESA local bus Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 Video Modem, CD-ROM, Sound Card, Iomega tape drive, etc. My question has to do with moving everything over to the P90. I have a new Western Digital 3.2G that I don't want to go through the trouble of reinstalling everything. Just did that a few months ago. The Maxtor 340 I will use as a second HD and plan to install Linux on it. Should I delete devices in Device Manager before the final shut down on the 486; install the WD HD in the P90; and let windows detect the new hardware. My 486 is rock solid at this point and I don't want to get the registry all goofed up by doing this. But I want to take advantage of the proformance jump with the P90 and 40 MEGs of RAM. [I know its not a PII 400 with 100MegHz bus but its the best I got!] Thank you for your help Sincerely, John ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>