Moving HDD from Intel to AMD platform and back

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markoneswift

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#154748 6-Nov-2014 15:05

OK so I went ahead and did it anyway - I hope another topic is acceptable to the forum admins.

Removed drive from AMD platform machine, installed into Intel Haswell platform machine WITH uefi BIOS. Waited a while, it booted, got devices ready and boom ! there was the desktop. The only intervention required from me was to replace the standard MS video card driver with the 'proper' one. Job done, works beautifully.

nathan

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#1170097 6-Nov-2014 15:19

Yay for PnP

Ragnor

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#1170812 7-Nov-2014 13:17

nathan: Yay for PnP

Yay for Microsoft drivers for non Microsoft hardware...

robcreid

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#1170841 7-Nov-2014 13:38

markoneswift: The only intervention required from me was to replace the standard MS video card driver with the 'proper' one. Job done, works beautifully.

I'd still recommend doing a few more drivers even if your device manager has no missing drivers. I'd at least do Intel Chipset, Disk Controller and USB3.