Re: Tranferring Hard Drives to New Motherboard

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Hi,

You can't use the laptop's disk to restore the desktop system. You will need to slipstream SP2 into the XP disk and create a new install disk to do the repair install without losing everything. If your XP-SP1 disk is proprietary OEM, you may not be able to install with a different motherboard.

To create a slipstreamed disk, see:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"bhoenig<no-spam> @comcast.net>" <"bhoenig<no-spam> wrote in message news:nZadna14rPGLK6_YnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently had a system crash (motherboard failure) on my desktop PC, and would like to simply transfer all components (videocard, 2 hard drives, DVD drives, etc) to a new motherboard (which will surely be a different one from the 5 year old one that failed).

I know that there's a way to do a "Repair" Install to accomplish this, but my situation is a bit more complicated. My original install CD for the desktop system is XP Pro SP1. I recently installed SP2, so the original CD doesn't match what's on the hard drives.

Just before my desktop system crashed, I was researching this and someone here pointed me to the Simplyguides.net website for instructions, which I printed. However, the instructions talk about an applet called "Autostreamer" which allows one to create an SP2 install CD. Although this would address my situation, I didn't create that CD in time before my system crashed.

The laptop that I just purchased (and am using for this post) has XP2 Media Center installed, so I'm not sure if I can create an SP2 install CD on it to use on my desktop system after I replace the motherboard.

Can someone guide me thru the procedure to have a new motherboard "accept" my 2 hard drives without having me to wipe them clean and lose all of my data and apps. I REALLY want to avoid having to re-install everything.

Thanks!


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