Move XP Installation to New Hardware

[J. Smith]

Original Hardware: Dell Optiplex GX240 (Celeron 1.8, IDE, XPSP2)
New Hardware: Dell Precision 530 (Dual Xeon, SCSI, XPSP2)

Ran ntbackup on C: and System State on Original system, and then did clean
install of XPwSP2 on new system. Used ntbackup to restore C: and system
state.

Upon restoring to New system, boot fails. Boot to safe mode stops at
AGP440.sys. Used
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324764 to disable
this service, and that only leaves the system to hang at Mup.sys.

Anyone have any ideas, insight?

 

[Jerry]

You cannot do what you did.

If XP is on a 'new' system you must boot from the XP CD and do a repair
install so that XP can install the drivers corresponding to the new system.

Therefore, the clean install went OK, but the reinstall of the backup was
flawed because the backup had the drivers for the old motherboard, video
card, etc. and you were stopped at AGP444.sys when you re-booted.

What you should have done was take the hard drive from 'old', install it as
the boot drive in 'new', boot from the XP CD, do a repair install.

 

[J. Smith]

Theorize with me here: I can't swap hard drives, cause I am using the old
computer, and am not willing to "corrupt" the hard drive contents that is
intact in this PC.

Would this work?
Install XPSP2 on New
Run restore on New from old's .bkf file (c: and system state)
When PC reboots, only boot to XP CD, and run "repair" on the OS

??

I've read other posts that tell me to do "in place" upgrade on my current
system and then take a backup, but that would put my PC out of commission
for a while, and again could possibly effect the integrity of the "old'
system, and dissallow me to use it for a significant period of time.

 

[Jerry]

I can only suggest you try your theory. I have no experience with installing
a backup over a new install and I can't remember if the question was ever
asked anywhere in these newsgroups.

But my guess is the install to backup to CD boot and repair sounds feasible.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Would this work?
Install XPSP2 on New
Run restore on New from old's .bkf file (c: and system state)
When PC reboots, only boot to XP CD, and run "repair" on the OS

J.,

have you tried it already? I'd be curious about what problems
you may have run into.

I think it would work, though there is no reason to do an
in-place update of a new installation. You could just as well,
or better, install XPSP2 in a separate partition or on a USB
memory module and do the restore operation from there, which
would recreate your entire original installation.

In any case you'll have to do a repair installation, i.e. boot
from the install CD, select install (not repair), let the
installer detect existing installations, then choose to repair
the existing installation.

Hans-Georg