Getting new hardware - can I just move the disk?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 20:32:57 UTC 2021


On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 21:55, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But I thought that the live systems (DVD(USB) did not have access to any of the
> drives etc, except for GParted which somehow circumvent this limitation?

Not at all, no. A live medium can access all the drives in the
computer, without user accounts or anything. (If the drives are
encrypted you do need the password, though.)

You can't run programs installed on the hard disk, though.

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