Moving to a new computer

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 21:05:47 UTC 2019


On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 21:29, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
>
> I need to move Ubuntu to another computer.  Both computers use Intel chip sets.
> What I want to do is just move the hard drive from one to the other.  I know
> that all the devices will not be the same so what I want to know is how to
> update the Ubuntu configuration on the new computer so it recognizes all the
> devices.

If you are using the intel graphics, and assuming they are both 64 bit
processors, then there is a good probability it will just go.  Try it
and see, obviously you have already backed up all important data.
However you might have trouble getting it to boot with UEFI if the new
one uses that instead of a BIOS.

Colin

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