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    upgrade to my cf18 from mk2 to mk4 or 5

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by sunrk, Feb 19, 2011.

  1. sunrk

    sunrk Notebook Evangelist

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    If I obtained a better CF18 (say a Mk4 or Mk5 with 1.25 ghz processor) can I simply take the HDD out of my Mk2 system, put it into a Mk4 or 5 system, and have that work without any requirement to re-install Windows Xp?

    I would expect that Windows is going to be smart enough to determine any hardware differences with respect to drivers installed on my mk2 system and flag that new or different drivers are needed? :cool:

    Craig.

    PS. I am living back in NSW as of late Nov last year. Now working as a coal train driver for QR National (and my Mk2 CF18 goes with me to work every day in my work bag!).
     
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    I have only one 18, so can't comment much, but I've done swaps between models of 34, 50, 51, 28 and 29s. Win XP will boot and detect the changes, etc, and you install as appropriate.

    IIRC, sometimes these HDD swaps will work from say, 50 to 73. I'd suggest cloning your drive to an image prior to swaps, lest windoze falls asleep and never awake, and you don't have to re-install from scratch again.

    Keep us posted.
    Ron in SG
     
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    IT will give you BSOD. Only MK4 and MK5 will but you must have the same model. I mean TS to TS, digi to digi.


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  4. sunrk

    sunrk Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok thanks. System I'm looking at is a CF-18KDHQXVA however I have a suspicious feeling that's a digitizer model and not a touchscreen model. With the configurator not doing discontinued models, can anyone confirm what the specs of it are?

    Craig.
     
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  5. ohlip

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    You have a digi model. The second letter will confirm but make sure it is also the same on the bios.


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    Alex, Feb 20, 2011
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