Moving a hard drive to another machine. 1

[lifto]

I have done some searching over the last couple of day but have not come up with the answer to this problem.

I want to restore an image to a hard drive, put it in a computer with a different hard ware config, boot it and have it re-install the hard ware (thus up dating the os to the current platform). The OS is win2k

The was an note in the Alfred Poor's column in computer shopper last summer that talked about deleting the enum key from then registry. (I thought it was from hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset and hkey_current_config\system\currentcontrolset) Shut the machine down, move the hard drive and the reboot. Whwn thew os comes back up, it registers the "new" hardware and you are off and running.

If anybody has any info on this or a similar process, I would appreciate a note back.

Thanks,

lifto

 

[vickero007]

This is tough since the image was created with different hardware, but this works sometimes:

On the computer you will put the hard drive on you go into the Device Manage and remove all of the hardware that is different (pretty much everything you can possibly remove).

Then install the new hard drive and it should recognize all the hardware and begin to install itself. Of course you may need to help it.

-Volkoff007

 

[wolluf]

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/problems.htm

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.htm

faq616-3353

 

[lifto]

Thanks for the info Wolluf. I have not had a chance to try this stuff out yet, but, from the looks of it, the answer is here.

 

[echoecho]

I use sysprep 1.1. I use the same image for all my Compaqs, HP and Dells. One tip that has helped me in using sysprep is before running it, change the ide controller to the standard driver. Then, I create a directory on the machine I am imaging with all the drivers I need for each make/model.

 

[Innov8]

You can also checkout Microsoft KB article #287043--This article instructs you on how to add all W2K recognised IDE chipset drivers to your installation before you move it to new hardware; this way you can hopefully avoid any stop 0x0000007b errors.