System Disk move to new P/C

[Guest]

I have a P/C runing Win Xp Pro IIt is 3 years old A Pent III with VIA chips set
My System Disk is a WD 160 ATA100 which has all my gunk on it

I have a new P/C Pent 4, Intel MB, Intel chips, Sound, video, ATA100 control all on MB

It dawned on me that rather tan reinstalling every thing there may be a change I could just swap system disk in my P/C and basicaly boot up and let PnP cough and spurt until the board dirvers worked there way through things
If successful, I can put the new disk in the old Pent III and load the new software there which I have all my stuff running in a day

The main reason that trigger this was the old P/C has problems with the Hot disk cadge and / or the PCI ATA100 adapter.
It hangs about every 80 hours or dies after heavy usage, like I can't do a backup and make it complete

My question is "Is this doable or is it a lucky thing if it works or will it not work

Thank you

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

You will probably need to perform a Repair Installation to properly
detect the new hardware:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

I have a P/C runing Win Xp Pro IIt is 3 years old A Pent III with VIA chips set.
My System Disk is a WD 160 ATA100 which has all my gunk on it.

I have a new P/C Pent 4, Intel MB, Intel chips, Sound, video, ATA100 control all on MB.

It dawned on me that rather tan reinstalling every thing there may

be a change I could just swap system disk in my P/C and basicaly boot
up and let PnP cough and spurt until the board dirvers worked there
way through things.

If successful, I can put the new disk in the old Pent III and load

the new software there which I have all my stuff running in a day.

The main reason that trigger this was the old P/C has problems with

the Hot disk cadge and / or the PCI ATA100 adapter.

It hangs about every 80 hours or dies after heavy usage, like I

can't do a backup and make it complete.

 

[Guest]

Dear JJ

Thanks for the almost but since the original CD does not contain any of the new drivers that does not work. You must be thinking 2002 version
Also why would I repair something that isn’t broke, yet
Lastly, are you just selling stuff? How old are you? Does your mother know what you do for a living
Have a nice day

Anyone with a real answer? I would be very appreseated
Thnak yo

 

[Guest]

Unlike pervous windows OS that u could perfom such switch
and let the pnp figure things out xp is not that way a
mojor change like this will not work....
If u install the hard drive from ur pentium 111 machine
to pentium 4 machine u will boot the system and get a blue
screen........
Solution would be to insert your windows xp cd boot
from that and instead of doing an install click repair
windows and that should fix ur problem.... to answer ur
question it is do able...... but as specified above.....
As a caution i would try backup any files that a critical
just as a saftey net.........

-----Original Message-----
I have a P/C runing Win Xp Pro IIt is 3 years old A Pent III with VIA chips set.
My System Disk is a WD 160 ATA100 which has all my gunk on it.

I have a new P/C Pent 4, Intel MB, Intel chips, Sound,

video, ATA100 control all on MB.

It dawned on me that rather tan reinstalling every thing

there may be a change I could just swap system disk in my
P/C and basicaly boot up and let PnP cough and spurt until
the board dirvers worked there way through things.

If successful, I can put the new disk in the old Pent III

and load the new software there which I have all my stuff
running in a day.

The main reason that trigger this was the old P/C has

problems with the Hot disk cadge and / or the PCI ATA100
adapter.

It hangs about every 80 hours or dies after heavy usage,

like I can't do a backup and make it complete.

 

[Hemlock tree]

I have lost a mother board and cpu system by static electricy or
something.
The hard drives were fine.

I simply moved the hard drive into the new cabinet and was lucky.
It booted, took a little time to find all the hardware but it booted.

I then took a ghost image of the same hard drive and
built a second machine for backup.
I unplugged the drive and plugged it into the new machine.
It booted.

I went from a .8 ghz cpu(got zapped) and an old AZUS to an Aopen MB
with 2.2 ghz cpu and another MB with a 2.4 ghz cpu.

regards,

Hemlock