[labnetwork] EV620 win98 spare computer

[Chito Kendrick]

Our EV620 is running win98 and the cost EVG was talking to upgrade it to 
the latest windows was above what I am willing to pay. It would not just 
be the computer that needed upgrading but also parts of the hardware also.

We have a cloned HDD of the computer, but that would only be good in 
case the HDD failed and we wanted to put it back into the same computer.

What I want to do is build a secondary computer with a cloned HDD, as 
our win98 computer is showing signs of failing - random crashing, not 
properly booting, forgetting drives (drives that are not used but errors 
are appearing). In my experience you can not just put a HDD into a new 
computer as it will have to load in drivers for the motherboard and 
other hardware changes (unless you have the same hardware - which I will 
likely not). The other concern is if I move the EV620 boards from one 
computer to another if they will be recognized or if they also have a 
license key - last thing I need is the system down as the boards will 
not be recognized by either computer.

Has anyone done this with their systems that are running older operating 
systems.

Chito Kendrick

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