Hardware changes

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Nicolas

Hello All,

I have a harddisk installed with XP Pro. I would like to move this
drive to another "box" which is identical to the one it came out of
(IBM 300PL PIII 550MHz for interest sake) - but no ways will it boot
when it is installed with the other hardware.

I have experienced this same problem with other hardware as well,
except that the problem was repairable by running a repair
installation of XP.

Is XP *COMPLETELY* intollerant of hardware changes, without
reinstallation!?

I would like to ghost (image/clone) a couple of machines, but no luck
if an installed harddisk does not go back into the very same box, it
will not come on.

Nicolas Noakes
 
It depends on how many hardware changes you are talking about... since this
is in fact to all intents and purposes a COMPLETE hardware change, yes, it
does need a Repair Installation.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
Hello All,

I have a harddisk installed with XP Pro. I would like to move this
drive to another "box" which is identical to the one it came out of
(IBM 300PL PIII 550MHz for interest sake) - but no ways will it boot
when it is installed with the other hardware.

I have experienced this same problem with other hardware as well,
except that the problem was repairable by running a repair
installation of XP.

Is XP *COMPLETELY* intollerant of hardware changes, without
reinstallation!?

I would like to ghost (image/clone) a couple of machines, but no luck
if an installed harddisk does not go back into the very same box, it
will not come on.
Click to expand...

On the XP CD, there is Deploy.cab and in that there is a Sysprep.exe
utility which can be run before imaging an XP machine so that the
hardware information is removed and forces XP to redetect any new
hardware. Also, XP is fussy with ACPI and non-ACPI compatible
computers.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
Hello All,

I have a harddisk installed with XP Pro. I would like to move this
drive to another "box" which is identical to the one it came out of
(IBM 300PL PIII 550MHz for interest sake) - but no ways will it boot
when it is installed with the other hardware.

I have experienced this same problem with other hardware as well,
except that the problem was repairable by running a repair
installation of XP.

Is XP *COMPLETELY* intollerant of hardware changes, without
reinstallation!?

I would like to ghost (image/clone) a couple of machines, but no luck
if an installed harddisk does not go back into the very same box, it
will not come on.
Click to expand...

There is a MS article on the subject:
'How to Move a Windows XP Installation to Different Hardware
[Q314070]'
and
'How to Use Sysprep.exe to Automate Windows XP Deployment [Q302577]'

(see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=fh;en=us;kbinfo)

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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