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Old 11-29-2011, 03:07 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda View Post
what he's saying is that if you take an image of that Server 2008 box and try to put it on a different machine, it won't work due to the driver issues. when you swap out the motherboard and chipset of any PC (which is essentially what would happen in your case) Windows won't even boot. if you take a raw image of that machine and put it on your box at home, you'll likely just end up staring at a blue screen
There might be problems moving from server class hardware to a normal desktop, but worst case you can probably just rebuild the HAL with windows repair disc.

edit: I guess scitheroe beat me to it.
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