Hard Drive Change

[Gary S. Terhune]

So, there goes your "whether it successfully boots or not after a
motherboard swap is 100% related to the old and new hard drive controller."

All in all, I think I'd prefer a Repair install.

 

[David B.]

What ever floats your boat, I'd rather not waste the time if I don't have
to.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Hmmm... Seems to me that the hardware changes your method requires would
take near as much time as a Repair install. Certainly a lot more hands-on
time. Dunno...

 

[David B.]

Installing a driver for a PCI controller takes the same amount of time as a
repair install and reinstalling all the Windows updates? Few I think would
agree with that. My method is 5, 10 minutes at most in preparation. A repair
install, half an hour roughly depending on the machine, Windows updates
another half hour to an hour or so depending on your connection speed. It
really is a time saver and almost always works. I have even swapped AMD
boards for Intel boards with this method, with no repair install. This
method gets around the hard drive controller incompatibility issue only, if
it blue screens for some other reason, which I have found is rare, it's
usually because one forgot to uninstall drivers (sound, nic etc) before the
final shutdown before the swap.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Five to ten minutes to install a PCI card (the hardware), then. when the
drivers install is complete, shut down, remove the card, install the new
mobo (won't count that time), restart and install all the new drivers (also
a wash), then, after the thing is done, remove the card? OK, maybe, if
you're really fast. But I doubt it.

Whereas a Repair install takes about two minutes to initiate, then you go do
something else for half an hour. Ditto the Updates. And there's no guessing
whether your method will even work.

 

[David B.]

As I said, to each his own. I don't really care how any one does it, I was
just offering another solution to a common problem.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Understood. I'm just adding to the discussion.