Migrating to new computers and XPPro...

[Andreas]

Howdy, y'all; what's the most efficient way to migrate
corporate Win98SE machines and applications to new
computers running XPPro?

I've been thinking about moving the 20 GB hard disks from
the Win98SE machines (formatted FAT32) to the new
computers, booting in Safe Mode, installing 98SE chipset
and video drivers in the new machines, and then upgrading
to XPPro.

Is this the easiest way?

TIA.

 

[Guest]

You'll have a problem,a hd needs to be installed to each motherboard it uses,
along with installing xp.For one computer,on start up install xp cd,restart,boot to
xp cd,then select install xp,the problem here too,xp reformats the hd.If you can
do that for all,thats all thier is to it,if youre doing many,you should also chk out
the downloads and install group-policy.I believe the download is #326469 kb

 

[Guest]

I am presuming that the new PC's are coming in with XP on
them? Are they all similar models? If so I would look
into hard drive duplication tools such as Ghost. If you
have a volume license from Microsoft, you can set up 1 new
machine how you like and then clone it to each new box up
to the number of volume licenses you have.

 

[Andreas]

No, the new PCs are cases with motherboards and CPUs only.
I'm installing memory, a NIC, and drives. The users want
their configurations preserved, so I'll have to do each
one separately. Last nite (and early this AM <yawn>), I
created a backup image of one of the Win98SE machines on a
spare disk w/ MaxBlast, installed it, booted to Win98SE,
and deleted all of the devices. I moved the disk to the
new machine, booted, and reinstalled drivers. Wasn't
pretty, but it worked. Now on to the XPPro upgrade...