Re: Full Hardware Upgrade Without Losing Anything On The HDD

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Leythos wrote:
> In article <uQpnfT2gFHA.3692@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Ghostrider wrote:
>>> kurttrail wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Then you obviously don't know what you are doing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> At some point in time, the law of diminishing returns kick
>>> in and spending hours doing Windows Registry diving is not
>>> very constructive although highly instructive. <:-}}
>>
>> LOL! With some common sense preparation before the move, and a
>> repair install after moving, there is hardly a windows PC that I
>> couldn't move XP from and to.
>>
>> And I've successfully moved 98, NT4, and Windows 2K from one
>> computer to another too. If your experience is like Lameboy, that
>> moving "from one radically different platform
>> to another . . . . seldom works well," then I'd say that shows how
>> unskilled you are.
>
> So have I, but I've also seen it fail to work more times that it
> worked, even following MS's suggestions on how to do it.

Well that is your problem. Following MS's suggestions.

Like I said, if your experience is that moving an install from one
computer to another fails more often than not, then that shows how
unskilled you are, especially with NT5.x.

> At the same time, to even start something like that without a workable
> backup is foolish based on the op's situation. A ghosted image and
> using the image to migrate is the proper method - leaves a 100%
> viable machine still working instead of taking a serious risk of
> killing it and not having a backup.

LOL! You say that like I recommended no back up.
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