Re: Windows XP & new motherboard

Did the xcopy command and it didn't copy the file, that's the root of the
problem

"BC" wrote:

> Gawd, what useless, nonsensical "advice"
>
> In the good old days of Windows 98, the OS was smart
> enough to redetect what it can and all you had to do was
> find and download some drivers for the video, sound,
> network cards. But Windows 2000 and XP mostly just
> freak out.
>
> "Recovery" CD's are dangerous and useless unless
> you want to wipe out everything you've put on your system
> since you got it.
>
> If cost is not ahbig issue, buy a new hard drive and then
> buy or borrow a true installation XP CD .
>
> Swap in your new hard drive for your old one and put the
> old one safely away to the side temporarily.
>
> Boot off the XP and do a full fresh install with the new hard
> drive and motherboard. You will likely need to install drivers
> off the CD that came with the motherboard. When you are
> asked to create a new user profile, use the exact same
> name and password you used previously.
>
> Once the new MB/hard drive combo is working, shut it
> down and attach your old hard drive. If its a good drive
> that you want to keep using, you can mount it as a slave
> drive to your new one if you have space for it. If not,
> temporarily disconnect the data cable from your CD
> drive and use that to attach your old hard drive.
>
> Restart your system and you should be able to both
> see and access everything on your old drive (it'll likely
> be drive "D:") At that point you can simply copy all your
> data and files over to your new hard drive. Any
> application you installed won't transfer over this way,
> but sometimes there might be installation folder for
> some of the apps that came with the system. Since your
> new drive will likely be much larger than your old. you
> might want to just copy the whole thing over, but not
> blindly. If you just want your data and can reinstall your
> apps, do that. If you want to try to get all you old apps
> working as well, that's iffy but can be tried without
> penalty other than time lost.
>
> If you just want all your old files
>
> 1) Open up a DOS window
> 2) Enter "cd \" to switch to the root of your new drive
> 3) Enter "md olddrive" to create a new folder called "olddrive"
> 4) Enter "cd olddrive" to switch to the new folder
> 5) And then enter xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/h/k/c/i/r/y
>
> This will copy *everything* that was on your old hard drive
> into the olddrive folder. Most of it will be useless Windows
> and apps stuff, but this will allow you to move things later
> at your leisure to the more appropriate folders on your
> new hard drive. At some point when you're sure you got
> everything you need or want, you can delete the olddrive
> folder.
>
> If you want to try to see if you can get some of your apps
> working, restart the system in Safe Mode (keep tapping
> the F8 key just prior to boot up) and log in as Administrator.
> The password should be blank.
>
> 1) Again open up a DOS window
> 2) Enter "cd \" to switch to the root of your new drive
> 3) Then enter xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/h/k/c/i/r/y
> 4) Keep fingers crossed.
>
> When done, reboot your PC and see what you end
> up with. If it won't boot up, you'll have to reinstall XP
> on the new hard drive from scratch and just do the
> "olddrive"folder method.
>
> You'll likely run into an XP activation issue. Just call
> up Microsoft and complain how all you did was
> replace a broken motherboard and how you got
> another hard drive because you were afraid of
> losing data on your old one while trying to fix things.
> If they balk at freely activating XP, tell them you'll
> complain to the European Commission.
>
> Hope you find this more useful.
>
> -BC
>
>
.

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