RE: Transferring hard disks with XP to new PC
- From: "bigdoubleya" <bigdoubleya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:27:01 -0700
Andrew,
Not a waste of time on the repair, it worked and kept most of the config,
however AVG free was screwed.
As to the rest see my reply below.
Thanks for your input tho'
Mark
"Andrew E." wrote:
> With a new board you'll need to reinstall xp,boot to xp cd,select,install xp,
> new copy,delete the partition,create one,then let xp format and install.
> Youre wasting youre time on a "repair" of xp.
>
> "bigdoubleya" wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Bought a new barebones PC and want to transfer my old hard disk with XP pro
> > on it to the new machine.
> >
> > Back in the good old / bad old days of Win98 etc, it was easy to do this as
> > Windows saw IDE as IDE and made no other requests to the system to fine tune,
> > AFAIR.
> >
> > Now though if I transfer the drive I get a reboot, safe mode does the same.
> >
> > I can furnish more info from the boot log if required later but does anyone
> > have a sure fire way of getting the GUI up and running so that it can start
> > updating drivers etc.
> >
> > Oh, I'm also transferring the cdrom, dvdrw and most importantly the AGP
> > graphics card so it's not an issue with that.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> >
.
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