New machine, move W2KP to it...

[Duncan McC]

Hi,

I am upgrading a PC for a friend. His old machine is well.. old, 6?
years or so. He has his Windows 2000 Pro disks (but they'll be SP1 I
spose). That said the PC is fully up to date (SP4 plus the 40 or so
others on top of that).

1. I'm going to image the drive.
2. I thought I would go into Device Manager and delete, well, everything
I can. Then I intend to image the drive again (this will be the restore
image I'll use on the new PC).

The new machine will have a 250Gb SATA HDD (I'm concerned this might be
a problem).

Anyway, I intend to either:
* install W2KP on the new PC, get the imaging s/w on, and then restore
the image, OR
* the above but boot via the image CD utility.

And hope that drive detection will work and the system will boot up and
detect all the new stuff.

Am I going about this the right way??? - have others done this???

 

[Dave Patrick]

These articles may help.

How to Move a Windows Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694

HOW TO: Replace the Motherboard on a Computer That Is Running Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=824125

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi,
|
| I am upgrading a PC for a friend. His old machine is well.. old, 6?
| years or so. He has his Windows 2000 Pro disks (but they'll be SP1 I
| spose). That said the PC is fully up to date (SP4 plus the 40 or so
| others on top of that).
|
| 1. I'm going to image the drive.
| 2. I thought I would go into Device Manager and delete, well, everything
| I can. Then I intend to image the drive again (this will be the restore
| image I'll use on the new PC).
|
| The new machine will have a 250Gb SATA HDD (I'm concerned this might be
| a problem).
|
| Anyway, I intend to either:
| * install W2KP on the new PC, get the imaging s/w on, and then restore
| the image, OR
| * the above but boot via the image CD utility.
|
| And hope that drive detection will work and the system will boot up and
| detect all the new stuff.
|
| Am I going about this the right way??? - have others done this???
|
| --
| Duncan

 

[Duncan McC]

These articles may help.

How to Move a Windows Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694

HOW TO: Replace the Motherboard on a Computer That Is Running Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=824125

Thanks Dave - I have those from other posts I read here - and indeed
looks like an option *'cept* the SATA disc and the original boxed W2KP
(non SP4). So I think I'd have to create a slipstreamed disc for this
to work.

And that's where I thought my method (imaging technique) might just
avoid all that ???

 

[Dave Patrick]

You might look at restoring the system state.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7664
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/9005/9005.html

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks Dave - I have those from other posts I read here - and indeed
| looks like an option *'cept* the SATA disc and the original boxed W2KP
| (non SP4). So I think I'd have to create a slipstreamed disc for this
| to work.
|
| And that's where I thought my method (imaging technique) might just
| avoid all that ???
|
| --
| Duncan

 

[Duncan McC]

You might look at restoring the system state.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7664
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/9005/9005.html

Thanks Dave, good thinking.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome. Let us know how you make out.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks Dave, good thinking.
|
| --
| Duncan

 

[Airman Thunderbird]

This has worked well for me several times:
http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/Article11.html

 

[Duncan McC]

This has worked well for me several times:
http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/Article11.html

Thanks - indeed the very problem I'm worried about is the SATA drive on
the new system. Perhaps I should:
* image the drive
* remove everything I can from Device Manager
* re-image the drive

* move it
* and if I get it working in the new system, re-image it
* install the SATA drive and drop the image onto it

naa... I'm still going to run into the SATA drive problem aren't I -
when I move the image (and it's ATA/IDE support) over.