Euro Hardware and US Hardware

[HomerEBW]

Now, I'm not a computer nut. Sure, I know a little here and there about certian things. But I'm not sure about this.

I will be attending the CPL, along with many of you. And I am bringing 2 machines with me. One for me, and the other for a good friend to use (AphexTwin). If you didn't know already AT is from England. He will be bringing a Hard Drive with alot of his stuff on it, to put into my rig.
My question is, will everything run the exact same as if someone from the states did it?
Will it run Windows or Linux the same way?
Do their Hard Drives have the same connections/wires as ours?
Would I need to change any of the BIOS settings?
Has anyone had an experiance like this before?

I ask because I don't want his Hard Drive messed up if there's a conflict with my hardware.

I know this might sound kind of dumb of asking this, but I'd rather know than find out there, and be screwed.

Thank You.

[contusion]

What are you system specs (on the computer Aphex will be using) and what kind of hard drive does he have? I doubt there will be any problems, unless the computers are completely different. I mean like Mac and Dell different. But for standard issue Windows it should be fine. Not sure about linux.


Edit: See if there are some updatable drivers for Aphex's hard drive.

[Janus]

actually, it depends. if he is running on XP (not sure about other OS's) than he will need to reinstall XP in order for it to take in all of the hardware changes. Also does ur motherboard/bios have a limit to how big a HD it can accept, if not/not sure u better flash the bios to the newest one to be safe.

[ChEEsEy ManZ]

he will have to reformat his drive because most of the time there will be conflicts with mobo / HD or something else. bascially he can't put his hd in your computer.

[HomerEBW]

Here are the Specs on the computer Aphex will be using.

Specs:
AMD XP 1900+ (1.6GHz)
ABIT K7RA-RAID
1GB (256x4) PC2100 Generic Brand
PNY GeForce 4 Ti4400
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX

I'm not sure what HD he will be using. But I'm sure it's a PC and not a Mac :D

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My motherboard is one of the better ones for the Athlon XP I'm not sure if theres a HD size limit. I'm bringing a 12GB working HD just in case his doesn't work.

[OoteR]

he can do a reinstall of xp, although it wont be as good as a format, he'll just have to put his cdkey back in for hl, and wont lose all his crap.

[PF Boob]

If you dont want to lose the original install, you can just install XP to a different path and it will dual boot on startup. When it detects the old install, tell it to do a fresh install not repair the old one, then chnage the path from winnt to winnt2 or whatever you want it to be. Should work fine from there, although you will need to reinstall drivers ect..

when he goes back home he wont have to reinstall XP this way though.