I done it again!

[TechnoMage]

I had a spare 120 GB SSD that I wanted to put someplace where it could make an improvement.
So I took a deep breath, and went to work, extracting the old Toshiba 160 GB spinner out of my Acer Aspire ONE, Netbook.
The HD is down inside, mounted to the bottom of the motherboard, and not easy to get to.
An hour later, I had the SSD installed inside the Netbook, and fired it up, and it even ran. Voila! And I only had three screws left over.
Then I gave it a fresh install of Windows 8.1/Pro/x86 and it's running a lot faster today than it did with its original 160 GB spinner.

So now, what to do with a 160 GB Toshiba spinner (HD) with Windows 8.1/Pro/x86 already installed on it?
I unplugged the SSD in my Main desktop PC and plugged in the little spinner. I hit the GO switch and watched for sparks and smoke.
Well, that didn't happen. But it did humm a little, then I got a message on the screen that Windows 8.1/Pro/32 was setting itself up.
It was the same series of messages that one gets during a normal 8.1 install. (I've never had any OS that would do that, before.)
I didn't have to go fishing for my driver disks either. 8.1 installed all the drivers I needed for all my hardware, even my Epson printer,
and my NVIDEA video card.
That little Toshiba spinner performed a lot better in my Mini Mainframe (Mid-Tower Case, Desktop) Computer, than it did in that little Netbook with only 1.5 GB of RAM. My Desktop PC has 8 GB of RAM, and a 6-Core, AMD CPU. After mounting that little spinner in an adapter frame, and sticking it into a drive bay, I noticed that now I've got seven drives in my desktop PC (Pac-Man, Mid-Tower, Case).
All that happened between supper and bedtime! Just another day in the life of a retired computer tech.

Happy Thanksgiving!
TM

 

[Teeotsa]

Now, if someone could come up with a way to run Windows 11 on a 32 bit cpu, they could make a fortune.

Sorry, not gonna happen 32bit machines useless anyways, no?

 

[TechnoMage]

How could they be useless, when they ran the world for decades, and are still in use every day, in business and industry.
I currently have 12 computers, and half of them are 32 bit machines.
Those all run Windows 8.1/Pro/32. And run it very well, thank you.

 

[TechnoMage]

I can't believe how little action this forum is getting these days. Where have all the 8.1 users gone?

My latest escapade is to transplant an OS from another almost identical PC to this one, when this one started having problems.
I could no longer do a System Restore. And I did not have a Backup Image file old enough to correct the problem.
So, I made an image off of my other (twin) PC and restored it to this one.
My Data was never in jeopardy, since I don't store it on my C: drive.

There were only a few little things that I to change, like my printer drivers and email program.

So today I'm running on the OS that only a few days ago was running on a different PC.

Which OS, you may well ask? Well, it happens to be Windows 11/Pro/64. And, I did not get it from MS.

Cheers mates,
TM

 

[spapakons]

As far as I know 32-bit only CPUs are either Intel Pentium 4 socket 478 (or earlier) or Intel Atom netbooks/tablets. The former lack the required NX/PAE feature to run Windows 8/8.1 or 10 32-bit, but you can hack the kernel to run Windows 8/8.1 32-bit. Only problem is that each major update that replaces the patched system files will render the system unbootable, unless you patch the files again. Atom 32-bit can run 8/8.1 or 10 32-bit, I have a tablet HP Stream7 which originally run Windows 8 32-bit and I have now installed Windows 10 32-bit 22H2. The only drawback is the slow speed due to only 1GB RAM. I have disabled almost all visual effects to make it faster, but it still need some patience to use it.