Re: Booting Vista on Different PC Computers

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:01:26 -0000, "M.I.5¾"
<no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"NoConsequence" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:15:25 -0800 (PST), cccharlee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I install Vista Ultimate on one PC. It is an HP Pavilion a1700n.

I remove the 40 GB IDE HD from the HP PC and put it into a Compaq EVO
510 PC.

Result: Vista does not boot.

I have researched the subject but still have not found a solution.

The microsoft vista deployment step by step seems awfully complex.

Has anyone found a simple way to solve this problem?

I have also tried the reverse (from compaq to HP PC): Same result!

With XP I could boot into safe mode or just boot normally and XP would
detect and install the new hardware it finds.

Somtimes I would need to install XP from CD on the target PC to copy
the boot.ini and hall.dll files to a usb flash drive. Then I would
restore the image of XP on the target PC. I would boot into recovery
console and copy the files form the flash drive to the target PC
(boot.ini to C:\ and hal.dll to C:\windows\system32). Most times I
could then boot the target PC normally or in safe mode.

However, with Vista I am stymied!

Any practical solution?

Chris

http://drpcdr.ca

Sure. The most practical solution would be to ask in a group with
VISTA in it's title. Notice this group lacks that.

Ask elsewhere.


Not every server has caught up with the Vista newsgroups. This is, thus,
the nearest such people are likely to get.

Self appointed usenet nazis are not welcome so I suggest you just *** off
elsewhere if you don't like the content of this newsgroup. I note that at
least some people have had the courtesy to answer the OP without whingeing.


Suggestion denied - and are you not becoming a Usenet Nazi by telling
me not to post here? The truth hurts, doesnt' it.

If they don't get a good feed for groups, they should get a better
news server and probelm solved.

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