migrating to another Motherboard.

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Johan Verplaetsen

I have to get a quicker motherboard for my computer.
I can move de Harddisk from the old to the new PC, but I
think that Win2K has not the proper drivers for it.
How can I upgrade or "re-setup" Win2K without re-
instamming all the other application software?
This would take about 2 days.

Johan Verplaetsen
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Boot into Windows normally if possible after the new motherboard, insert the CD and run setup, select upgrade. If Windows won't
load, boot off the CD and run a repair install. However, with such major hardware changes when all is said and done, you may end up
having to do a clean install nayway.
 
Johan,

The "Microsoft endorsed" answer is to do a full backup. Swap your hardware.
Do a clean install of Windows 2000 on the new hardware, and restore from
backup.

This works. It is designed to work, and it is designed to accomodate
restoring to different hardware. Don't let anyone tell you this won't work.
This is The Official Microsoft Way of moving an operating system from one
hardware platform to another.

But, it's also a pain, so sometimes you can have success cheating.

The biggest problem is that if the new motherboard has a hard drive
controller different than the old motherboard, you'll boot to a STOP
0x0000007B (inaccessible boot device) blue screen.

Many times, you can install the drivers for the hard drive controller on the
new motherboard, shut down, swap hardware, and reboot, and things will work.

This is a risky proposition. It might not work. Microsoft won't support you
doing this. You might lose data. I would STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to do a full
backup (and review the backup logs!) before trying this. But in many cases,
it will work.

If you cannot risk the data on this drive, please use the Microsoft endorsed
method.

-Matt
 
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