Can I safely move my harddisk between computers?
Transferring a partitioned and formatted harddisk between computers is potentially dangerous if they use different translation schemes (see above) INCLUDING moving disk from an old computer that doesn’t support translation at all to a new one that does. This is really a little known issue. Usually everything goes smoothly, but you would NOT be the first to be caught by surprise. DO NOT ASSUME IT WON’T HAPPEN TO YOU. IT HAS DESTROYED DATA. 2.20 I have problems with my Award 4.50G BIOS and large drives. If your 4.50G BIOS is dated earlier than 13/12/1994, the address translation table is faulty. To access drives with more than 1024 cylinders, you cannot use address translation (Large) but must use LBA. In versions dated 13/12/1994 or later this has been fixed.
