Originally Posted By: Robotic
I thought I might try doing the install while the HD were mounted in my own (ancient) HP and then transferring the drive to the Sony and trying to fix it with drivers passed via ethernet or floppy... but I'm afraid this is fantasy.

I think you should be able to do it this way. Just make sure you uninstall any chip-specific IDE driver and just leave the standard IDE driver. Otherwise it will bluescreen when you try to boot. I know I used this method one time when I didn't want to reinstall Windows and I had to change mainboard. If you do it this way, why not also copy all the needed drivers onto the HD before you put it back into the Sony?

Stig