My laptop hard disk is running with Windows 10 and my old laptop hard disk is running with Windows 7, Can i just take them out and put it on my new laptop?
My laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate (non OEM) died on me today and it has tonnes of stuff on it - my projects, Visual Studio and office installations, etc. etc.  I am getting a new laptop from somewhere and was wondering if I could just unplug the hard disk from my original (dead) machine and plug it into the new one.  I remember trying this once with Windows Xp (on a desktop) and the OS crashed on boot and I had to reinstall everything again.  I have read about  but by the looks of it, it can be used only when the host computer is alive and kicking -- which mine isn't.  My old laptop was a Compaq Pressario v3000 (3 years old) on an AMD and the new one is going to be a new dual core Intel HP laptop.  Any ideas?  Thanks!
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The following MWE compiles (for me)  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=newest} \usetikzlibrary{external} \tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/externalized/]   \begin{document} \begin{figure}     \centering     \begin{tikzpicture}          \begin{axis}  %           \addplot3[surf,mesh/rows=129,mesh/cols=129,mesh/ordering=y varies] table[x=X,y=Y,z=psi] {figures/data/LidDrivenCavity/Lid_SPIKE_128x128_Re1000_psi.dat};              \addplot3[contour gnuplot,mesh/rows=129,mesh/cols=129,mesh/ordering=y varies] table[x=X,y=Y,z=psi] {figures/data/LidDrivenCavity/Lid_SPIKE_128x128_Re1000_psi.dat};          \end{axis}      \end{tikzpicture}     \caption{ciao} \end{figure} \end{document}   where the data file is . If I de-comment the first \addplot3 and comment the second one, then I get an error. The final part of the log file (the interesting one, I think) is  ===== 'mode=convert with system call': Invoking 'pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-o n-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname "figures/externalized/prova-figure0" "\ def\tikzexternalrealjob{prova}\input{prova}"' ======== \openout3 = `prova.auxlock'.  runsystem(pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname  "figures/externalized/prova-figure0" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{prova}\input{pr ova}")...executed.  \openout3 = `prova.auxlock'.   ./prova.tex:22: Package tikz Error: Sorry, the system call 'pdflatex -shell-esc ape -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname "figures/externalized/prova- figure0" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{prova}\input{prova}"' did NOT result in a us able output file 'figures/externalized/prova-figure0' (expected one of .pdf:.jp g:.jpeg:.png:). Please verify that you have enabled system calls. For pdflatex,  this is 'pdflatex -shell-escape'. Sometimes it is also named 'write 18' or som ething like that. Or maybe the command simply failed? Error messages can be fou nd in 'figures/externalized/prova-figure0.log'. If you continue now, I'll try t o typeset the picture.  See the tikz package documentation for explanation. Type  H &lt;return&gt;  for immediate help.  ...                                                l.22    \end{tikzpicture}  ?  PGFPlots: reading {figures/data/LidDrivenCavity/Lid_SPIKE_128x128_Re1000_psi.da t} Runaway argument? {\pgfkeyssetvalue {/pgfplots/execute at begin plot visualization}{}\pgfkeyssetv alue \ETC. ./prova.tex:22: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000]. &lt;argument&gt; ...5e-1],2Y7.753628e-3]}{2Y8.20894\ETC.  l.22    \end{tikzpicture}  If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.   Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:  20761 strings out of 493054  547383 string characters out of 6134761  5000001 words of memory out of 5000000  23958 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000  3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000  1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191  62i,4n,84p,728b,1519s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s ./prova.tex:22:  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!   similar (or the same) error appears if externalization is not enabled/used.  My TeX distribution is TeX Live on Mac OS X 10.9.5 and I use TeXShop as editor.  Once I (partially) solved a  on Windows+MikTeX+TeXniccenter by modifying/adding options to the command executed when compile button is pressed. I say partially since I actually solved the problem for some data file. Then I experienced the same problem with larger datafile and/or different plots (I don't remember anymore) and didn't find a way out, no matter how much I extended the memory.  What should I do now? How to enable crash reports/core dumps/stack trace logging globally? Crashing bugs can be the most annoying ones, leading to data loss, downtime and frustrated users. It would be good if applications crashed less.  Because of the complexity of the machine context, crashes often can't be reproduced in reasonable time for an ordinary user. That doesn't mean that the bug is rare - It could simply mean that the thing that triggers it occurs rarely for each user (for example DST changes). Such bugs are unlikely to be fixed unless a lot of users report them. It would be good if more crashes were reported.  To debug crashes, the developers need as much unambiguous context as possible. Generated crash reports are good, because they're usually detailed and accurate. 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Is there any sort of crash report generation* which can be enabled globally** without installing a ton of -dbg packages, reading the documentation of each and every application, or slowing a normal machine down to a crawl?  * Logs, core dumps, stack traces, whatever  ** Not necessarily for init, but at least for a significant subset of the applications running on a typical desktop Linux installation. In my experience GUI applications crash 100+ times more frequently than shell applications, so GUI applications would naturally be the focus. How to add fonts in LibreOffice writer I want to add nepali fonts like kantipur in Ubuntu 12.04.How can I do this. sudo: /var/lib/sudo writable by non-owner (040777), should be mode 0700 I get error message always when I work with sudo command.  It shows always sudo: /var/lib/sudo writable by non-owner (040777), should be mode 0700.   A while ago I changed the permission of /var folder to 777.   How can I fix it? 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