Changing motherboards

[bak4all]

I am running Win XP pro currently in my workstation with, ASUS P4S8X-X motherboard(MB) and I will change the MB to another brand. I had this experience before and I did not know how to do it; therefore, I re-installed manually everything again. There is or are wat/s to do the OS migration without re-installating everything again? Please help! Thanks

 

[bofhrevenge2]

You might want to post this in the XP Pro forum forum779. I really don't think you'll have much luck with this Windows just doesn't like being plonked into another PC (which changing the mobo essentially is). Having said that i did put a Win2k hard drive into another PC once and got it to run long enough to get my data off but i doubt it would of been stable for long.

 

[ADB100]

I managed something similar the other day which worked a treat for me.

1: Install new hardware
2: Put Windows 2000/XP disk into the CD and boot machine
3: Press a key to boot from the CD and let Windows setup start
4: If you have a non-standard disk controller (Like I did) press F6 and have the driver disk ready
5: Don't select recover, let Windows setup assume it is a new install
6: When Windows searches for a previous installation let it 'upgrade' this installation
7: Windows will install any new devices you have as well as keeping the settings and applications from the previous install.

It worked for me but I was only trying to get around a Ghost image of a Compaq Proliant DL320 built using an IDE controller where as I had the SCSI one.

Good luck

Andy

 

[tpittman]

I do what ADB100 details. Don't select "Repair from the Repair Console," go into setup and let it detect the existing installation, and then choose to repair that installation. It will replace all of your windows files so you'll revert to the sp level of the disk you're repairing from, fyi. I've had to reinstall sp2 before when repairing from a standard release cd.

 

[ADB100]

The ghost image I was using had SP4 installed so I made a slipstreamed Windows 2000 CD with SP4 already installed. Have a look for AutoStreamer to automate this:

http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=downloadfile&ID=2599

Andy