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Are operating systems able to run on different hardware?
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Mar 15, 2026642 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My friend boots Linux from an external hard disk (500 GB). My question is he installs the operating system for one particular motherboard processor; the system may have additional stuff like a graphics card, etc, etc. What if he plugs this disk to another completely different machine and tries to b…
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It depends. It might boot but run the hardware in some sort of standard mode - for example running the graphics card at a low resolution with no accelerated 3D graphics. Or it might not boot at all. For Windows XP it will probably detect the graphic…
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