[devane617]

well ok

[mylife]

I Upgradce to a super quadrature fravistat

[library user]

Mmmmmmmm.... Ice cream!

[LiberConservative]

You nerd. :)

[tutstar]

gnip...

[djf]

Ummm... XP didn’t complain about licensing?

[pelicandriver]

Clonezilla is great. I use it to backup my system drive whenever I install new software.

[Chode]

i don't know about how it is now, but... at one time when windows was installed it looked at what the processor and the chip sets were, then configured itself accordingly so switching motherboards/processors could be tricky when cloning since windows was loading drivers for stuff that may no longer there...

so question, is windows no longer required to load to the installed processor/chipsets or does it reconfigure itself on the fly???

[dubie]

I use acronis with universal restore for migrating to new hardware. its been great. I love acronis. much better than ghost in my experience...

[mkjessup]

Thanks for the post, while I’m not usually in the habit of migrating Win9x systems into XP or Vista hardware-friendly environments, Clonezilla sounds like it could be useful, and I thank you for the information! :)

[martin_fierro]

Major PC Hardware Upgradce

Upgradce that spell-czech softwear to.

[jnsun]

Thanks

[Tunehead54]

Reminder bump! ;-)

[JRios1968]

I likce cheesce

[TomServo]

I stubbed my toe.

[TChad]

If it works, it works, so congratulations, but you are lucky that the new computer booted at all. Your technique loads a bunch of drivers that were not intended for the new motherboard. If you added new drivers, fine, but are you sure that you got rid of all the old ones? Had you loaded XP from scratch, you wouldn't have to worry about creating an unstable system.

Also, it is legal for you to transfer the old XP installation to a new computer only if you have a retail license for XP, which costs about twice as much as an OEM license. If the old computer is a typical Dell or HP, then it probably has an OEM license. I only bring this up because you do not mention the type of license on the original computer. I have heard of people talking their Microsoft reps into letting them transfer one OEM license to a new computer, but Microsoft is under no obligation to do that, it specifically violates their OEM End User License Agreement.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

Thanks for the tip on Clonezilla. The last open-source imaging program I tried was an old version of Mondo Rescue, that was flaky enough to justify my purchase of Acronis TrueImage Workstation and Workstation Echo.

[Tainan]

Good for YOu!
Great for Your Father...and thanks for sharing that bit of tech info. It answers a question I've been too busy(read - lazy) to ask and attempt.
Merry Christmas to You both.

[Fire_on_High]

A recommended step on these sort of transfers is to change the chipset drivers to the generic Windows one before cloning it, and switch to the proper ones on the new system.

Oddly enough WinME was the most tolerant windows of new hardware...I cold swapped a hard drive I was originally planning to nuke and pave from an old 450 mhz box to a new AthlonXP 3000+ based box with nary a hiccup. Wouldn’t have cared if it went to hell, as I said I was really prepared to nuke it and just curious what it would do...since both machines used Via chipsets it went flawlessly.

Pity defective ram in the new box killed it within a few weeks, but the first couple days, damn was it a screamer. Til the bad ram ate it :-)

(To forestall all the ME naysayers..I lost a good number of 2k installs as well to the ram before I got it sorted, so don’t think of blaming the OS...this time.)