S
Steve
I've been googling around a while trying to solve the
following problem -
Just want to take the hard drive out of an old slow system
and stick it in a newer faster system. I have the driver
CD for the newer system; it has a different IDE controller
than the old one; so, apparently, when Win2K tries to load
the IDE drivers (which are for the old system) I get an
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. There's an article on the
MSKB about "moving a Windows 2000 installation to another
computer" which involves backing up the old hard drive,
doing some registry editing and/or sysprepping, and
restoring to the hard drive of the new system. There has
GOT to be an easier way...hasn't there?
When I used to do this on Win98 systems, I'd just boot to
safe mode first and remove whatever IDE drivers were in
device mgr; after moving the drive, Win98 would just
redetect, installing generic drivers if it needed to in
order to complete boot...can I do it this way or some way
similar?
following problem -
Just want to take the hard drive out of an old slow system
and stick it in a newer faster system. I have the driver
CD for the newer system; it has a different IDE controller
than the old one; so, apparently, when Win2K tries to load
the IDE drivers (which are for the old system) I get an
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. There's an article on the
MSKB about "moving a Windows 2000 installation to another
computer" which involves backing up the old hard drive,
doing some registry editing and/or sysprepping, and
restoring to the hard drive of the new system. There has
GOT to be an easier way...hasn't there?
When I used to do this on Win98 systems, I'd just boot to
safe mode first and remove whatever IDE drivers were in
device mgr; after moving the drive, Win98 would just
redetect, installing generic drivers if it needed to in
order to complete boot...can I do it this way or some way
similar?