New machine migration problem

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Gordon said:
Even if the OP did a repair install, he would STILL have to re-install all
the applications.
Why doesn't he just install the old HDD as slave to get the data off, and
just install the applications on the new HDD? Far easier than farting about
with slipstreaming.
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Shheeeeeesh! You really don't get it! His profile, his settings, his
emails, his little tweaks and what not are on his current installation
as he likes it and wants it! It is much simpler to move the existing
drive to new hardware and try a repair install than it is to go through
all the work of reinstalling and setting all that up again to his
liking! Secondly, we don't even know what is in the newer P4 computer,
he didn't tell us. Maybe it has no operating system at all, maybe it
has a borked XP that he inherited from someone else or maybe it has
Windows ME on it, we don't know!

I don't see what it is that you don't understand about what he wants to
do! He just wants to keep his current Windows installation and move it
to new hardware. A very sensible thing to do and something that people
do often. What is it that is so hard to understand about that!

John
 
You don't indicate what type of Windows XP install CD you are using.
Read the End User License Agreement (EULA) carefully to make sure it
allows you to transfer the OS to a new machine. Normally you need an
Upgrade or Full version (either sold in a retail BOX) of Windows XP to
be licensed to transfer the OS to a new computer. Note that IF you need
an earlier Windows version to qualify for the installation of a Windows
XP UPGRADE, you might need to have a valid license to install the
earlier OS on the newer computer.

IF you are licensed to install the OS on the new system you may need to
produce a Slipstreamed installation/repair CD. For a description of what
that is read the article at
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Will do. I'm pretty sure I can change machines. The license was a resold OEM
with eight licenses. I reinstalled it on a previous versioned HD I had on the
shelf and it worked. It's just service level that's hanging me up now.
 
John John said:
Shheeeeeesh! You really don't get it! His profile, his settings, his
emails, his little tweaks and what not are on his current installation as
he likes it and wants it! It is much simpler to move the existing drive
to new hardware and try a repair install than it is to go through all the
work of reinstalling and setting all that up again to his liking!
Secondly, we don't even know what is in the newer P4 computer, he didn't
tell us. Maybe it has no operating system at all, maybe it has a borked
XP that he inherited from someone else or maybe it has Windows ME on it,
we don't know!

I don't see what it is that you don't understand about what he wants to
do! He just wants to keep his current Windows installation and move it to
new hardware. A very sensible thing to do and something that people do
often. What is it that is so hard to understand about that!

John
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And By the time he's gone through all the slipstreaming process and
re-installed windows AND all the apps, he could have just installed the apps
and re-created the profile in HALF THE TIME!

JEEEEEZE are you all sodding MAD?
 
Gordon said:
You will still have to re-install all your applications after a repair
install, so why not just install them on the new XP?
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Not quite so. A repair install preserves data and installed apps.
 
Gordon said:
So why did you say in your original post (and I quote):
"it tells me I cannot do that because the system on the hard drive is
new than the install. It is, since the hard drive XP is SP2, and the
install is
SP1. "

If you are installing XP onto a BARE drive as you have now just said then
that error message could not POSSIBLY occur. Period.

Would you like to emnlighten us on what EXACTLY you are trying to do?
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Because the XP on the OLD computer had been updated to SP2. Even IF he
had tried to run a repair install on the old computer, the CD would have
refused to because the files on the hard drive were newer (Been there,
didn't even get a tee shirt).

I realized that he was wanting to repair the OS for the new hardware on
the HD from the old computer after reading ONLY the original post. Maybe
you are just having a bad day?
 
Gordon said:
What point? That the OP has a NEW machine (his words) with XP SP2
installed on it, and is trying to do a re-install with a CD that is XP
SP1?
Does the OP really want to make life as difficult as he possibly can?
And YOUR point was?
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Obviously you aren't too bright! Let's spell it out.
The opening poster does not want to reinstall everything. He is looking to
take his old hard drive and make it work as the new system drive. This will
require a Windows repair.
Maybe you need to go back to elementary school and gain some reading
comprehension skills!
 
You don't indicate what type of Windows XP install CD you are using.
Read the End User License Agreement (EULA) carefully to make sure it
allows you to transfer the OS to a new machine. Normally you need an
Upgrade or Full version (either sold in a retail BOX) of Windows XP to
be licensed to transfer the OS to a new computer. Note that IF you need
an earlier Windows version to qualify for the installation of a Windows
XP UPGRADE, you might need to have a valid license to install the
earlier OS on the newer computer.

IF you are licensed to install the OS on the new system you may need to
produce a Slipstreamed installation/repair CD. For a description of what
that is read the article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(computing)
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OKay, got through all that. But now when I try to repair install, I get to
the repair console dos prompt and do...what? I tried just typing exit, but
the machine reboots with a 'disk read error' Not sure what I'm supposed to
do there. The Microsoft document KB315341 tells me that XP will magically
do something there and to "follow the instructions" and there aren't any,
just a prompt.
 
OceanView said:
OKay, got through all that. But now when I try to repair install, I get
to
the repair console dos prompt and do...what? I tried just typing exit,
but
the machine reboots with a 'disk read error' Not sure what I'm supposed
to
do there. The Microsoft document KB315341 tells me that XP will magically
do something there and to "follow the instructions" and there aren't any,
just a prompt.
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You don't do a repair install from the recovery console. Don't take that
first R for repair. Go past that and the option to repair should be
presented. See this link for how to do a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
You don't do a repair install from the recovery console. Don't take that
first R for repair. Go past that and the option to repair should be
presented. See this link for how to do a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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Thanks. I didn't go intothe history in the last post, but I'd already tried
most of that (skipping the first R, trying a second partition install (no
thanks, I don't want to format). That's is how I'd got to the recovery
console. I'd run BOOTCFG which told me my boot sector was bad (I guess it
was pretending to work on my other system for months!). It said it repaired
it. Rebooted. Same result.

I had visited Michael's web page and tried most of that, but not all. I
just tried the repair, copy ntldr, bootcfg step and that failed as well.
There IS a boot.ini file, chkdsk says the drive is fine, bootcfg says it
can't find a windows installation (the XP install CD sure can).

I'm getting very frustrated at what should be a very simple thing: New
computer, move old stuff over. I have 8 years of programs and related data
on this drive. I'd REALLY hate to do a fresh install (which I now have low
confidence in anyway) What have I missed? BTW, if anybody has "aha"s about
this, It's a "8 in 1" (eight different installs, oem, xp home, xp pro,
volume license, etc) install disk, thought I had to delete several of them
because they wouldn't fit on the slipstream disc.
 
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