I may have invented something cool!!!

[Huludrock]

Most ninja computer trick I have ever pulled off in my life tonight is: friend has laptop he got for free and asks me to fix it as a favor....laptop has a bad HDD and a bad cd drive....how to install Windows? Win to flash of course! Make a bootable flash drive to install windows...oh wait, I don't have one big enough....so instead, take the hard drive out of my old Thinkpad t43 and put theirs in it's place and begin to install Windows 7.....allow Windows to install to the point of first restart and cut the power....remove the hard drive from your old Thinkpad and place hard drive into the friends laptop....start laptop....windows 7 now updates registry settings using your friends laptop hardware specifications and finishes installing cleanly......ninja!!

 

[SIW2]

LOL.

Great you worked it out for yourself.

 

[DeaconFrost]

You must work for Apple. I can tell, because you claim to "invent" something that's been around for years!

For your next trick, I'd suggest suing Samsung.

 

[Huludrock]

Jeez sorry to disappoint all you guys but I thought it was cool. Sorry I haven't been doing this for years and don't already know every trick in the book.

 

[Huludrock]

The next time I feel like sharing what might be a helpful trick I will keep it to myself.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Or, take a moment to see if the "tip" exists already. You might be interested in learning about Sysprep, which was a program Microsoft release long ago that automates a lot of what you just did.

 

[mangoh]

Lol glad it all worked out fine!

Perfect time to add this:

Spoiler

 

[Layback Bear]

Huludrock don't take it so seriously. Just keep reading through our great Forum and you like me will learn a lot of things. We don't do a lot of ninja things. We give advice and methods through knowledge and experience of our members. You might enjoy our Tutorials at the top of each page. A wealth of knowledge. Welcome aboard and enjoy the Forum.

 

[bigmck]

Jeez sorry to disappoint all you guys but I thought it was cool. Sorry I haven't been doing this for years and don't already know every trick in the book.

Huludrock -- Everybody thinks to have invented something at one time or the other. Here is what I invented this week. I am quite impressed with it. What do you think?
http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/250823-double-your-internet-speed.html

 

[Huludrock]

Deaconfrost: I just looked at SYSPREP and it seriously would have taken me twice if not three times as long as long as what I did. I literally put a blank HDD into my laptop, then halfway through the install I took it out and put into his (defective CD drive) and it finished installing perfectly. I don't know how much more automated it could get other than building a robot to transfer the drive from one laptop to another. SYSPREP looks cool and would probably be worth the time it takes for installs across multiple systems of the same hardware type. I was just messing around and thought I'd give it a try until I got a bigger USB. Thanks for the tip though.

 

[Huludrock]

I'll try not to take it so seriously. I just don't have the luxury of school or an actual teacher. I literally opened my first laptop 6 months ago and through the last 6 months working as the only technician at a repair company I have been forced to learn EVERYTHING on the fly because the other technician was fired shortly after I was hired(the technician posted an ad looking for someone who knew nothing(me) but the owner didn't realize that so I'm stuck learning on the fly which sucks sometimes but it sure is the best way to learn all the practical and none of the frills). Most of this is new to me. Sorry for the overreaction.

 

[boohbah]

if its any consolation hulu, i didnt know that method either, we're not all pc builders or even experts here.
a lot of us are learning too.
the rest of you , noob bashing isnt approved of.... do it in private like the team does. hahaha!

 

[bigmck]

if its any consolation hulu, i didnt know that method either, we're not all pc builders or even experts here.
a lot of us are learning too.
the rest of you , noob bashing isnt approved of.... do it in private like the team does. hahaha!

I agree -- Hulu, sometimes the people here, myself included, get a little out of hand. I hope you hang around. It is a great forum.

 

[Huludrock]

I will stick around. I run into a lot of things I don't know so I need all the help I can get.

 

[Layback Bear]

I will stick around. I run into a lot of things I don't know so I need all the help I can get.

That statement fits me to a (T)

 

[Kaktussoft]

What its system drive? Is it still called C: ? I don't think so(?)

 

[gregrocker]

The workaround you came up with took brains. The fact you then wanted to report it here means you value helping others which makes you one of us.

This is how many of us came up learning the tricks of Win7. There was so much experimentation with workarounds and what works for installation and repairs that early on we eclipsed the other sites to become the top tech site on the web.

Stick around and learn with us, keep reporting back.

 

[Huludrock]

Thanks Greg. I think the fact that I caught it before it got the chance to seek out the hardware and make registry changes is how it worked. I would be interested to try it with different models but I don't have a bunch of laptops laying around.

 

[MilesAhead]

Jeez sorry to disappoint all you guys but I thought it was cool. Sorry I haven't been doing this for years and don't already know every trick in the book.

Huludrock -- Everybody thinks to have invented something at one time or the other. Here is what I invented this week. I am quite impressed with it. What do you think?
http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/250823-double-your-internet-speed.html

Here's an upgrade of something I "invented" when I was an auto mechanic. When more and more cars changed to front wheel drive, a lot of them you had to use a wheel puller to get the rotor off(the disk of "disk brakes") to then mount it on the lathe to turn it true. I came up with the idea of a lathe that could be mounted on the car. When set up the car engine would be started, put in gear, and the wheel turning would drive the lathe mechanism. Of course I didn't submit the idea anywhere. But I told a few people about it over the years. Then one day visiting another mechanic in another garage they were demonstrating the prototype. It worked just as I described.

I knew the idea of running the car in gear up on the lift would not go over well with customers as gas prices increased. As you can see in the video, now they set up a drive shaft to turn the wheel on the car rather than running the car motor.

 

[dwarfer66]

Good job, always learning to the key mate.