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Windows 7 Pro SSD Hot Swap
Hello,
I currently own two near-identical laptops, both Lenovo T420. One with Nvidia graphics card, and one with integrated only. They have the same core, ram, and the one with the Nvidia is a bit fancier in terms of hardware.
I will call the one with Nvidia as N, and the other as I
N: (Primary + Secondary)
-W7Pro 64bit on 500GB HDD + OpenSUSE 13.2 64 bit KDE on 128GB SSD
I:
-OpenSUSE 13.2 64 bit KDE on 240GB SSD + W7Pro 64bit on 120GB HDD
I is my work laptop and the GRUB from OpenSUSE does NOT control the boot. In order to boot from secondary, I must interrupt the boot and choose to boot from the secondary drive. This was done on purpose.
Now, the reason for two 'identical' laptops for me was that previously I fell off my bicycle and destroyed Lenovo T410s, and only the SSD was salvageable. I was able to slap in that SSD to a new T420 and everything was good to go(With OpenSUSE 13.1).
I want these two laptops to be able to exchange parts at will, if one fails. Recently my work laptop keyboard has been worn down, and the spacebar stopped working properly, so instead of fixing it, I tried to do a hot swap of the drives. On Linux side, everything was good to go. From Windows 7 side however. Neither computers could boot. Also, W7 repair disc didn't work, neither did the installation drive for W7 for the 'repair' on the transplant.
Are W7 installations MAC-address specific or something? Is there a way to get around with this? I do want to take advantage of the better graphics card.