On 10/31/15 22:54, Charlie Pridham wrote:
"Frank Booth" wrote in message
...

First of all you can't just drop your old hard drive with system into
a new
computer and think it will boot up from that. It won't do simply because
your new machine will use different drivers, require different registry
settings etc Your system backup is only good for your old machine.

I thought the drivers would be on the hard drive not in the BIOS?

The problem is that 'device driver' hasn't meant anything coherent since
the 1970s. Yes, most of the code to drive the devices will be on the
hard disk, but it will access specific BIOS and sometimes hardware
features and most of the very low-level control is at that level. With
Linux, you would stand a better chance, but it's not guaranteed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.