reinstallation after hardware changes

[Guest]

I changed my motherboard from an amd 2800


I changed my motherboard from an asus a7v600 with athlonxp2800 to an intel
3.2gb dual core on a asrock mb but it would not let me boot giving me an
<windows root>system 32\hal.dll missing I had to reinstall vista on another
hard drive . how do I either get my original boot drive back with all my
programs or how do I transfer my settings to new load etc everything is their
but it won't let me copy from one system32 to another
ps my newe-mail address is (e-mail address removed) but also couldn't figure how to
transfer my registration to this forum

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

There is no repair install option like there was with XP, so you cannot
recover the original installation. Problem #2 is that in order to transfer
the programs using the Easy Transfer Companion, you would need to be working
within that original installation. While you can take ownership of the older
system folders and access and retrieve data files, your programs will need
to be reinstalled from their original installation media.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com