Switching motherboards with Win xp

[CARBUFF]

Hi, Im going to be switching motherboards in one of my systems. Its not a
drastic switch as its the same brand board, similar setup etc. Also I have xp
corporate pro version so I dont need to worry about activation and all that. I
have lots of programs installed on that machine and it all works fine. I would
like to not have to reinstall from scratch. Ive done this before with 98 and me
without too much hassle but I know xp is another story. Can someoneone post a
link or point me in a direction to find out how to do the motherboard switch
without messing up the xp installation. I really dont want to see "ntdlr
missing" when I go to boot it up. Thanks.

George

 

[RJK]

http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
http://www.theeldergeek.com/move_harddrive.htm

regards, Richard

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, assuming a retail license, unless the new motherboard is
virtually identical to the old one (same chipset, same IDE
controllers, same BIOS version, etc.), you'll need to perform a repair
(a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will probably also require re-activation. If it's been more
than 120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key,
you'll most likely be able to activate via the internet without
problem. If it's been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone
call.

By the way, there is no such thing as WinXP "Corporate Edition."
That is a term applied exclusively to pirated (iow, stolen) copies of
the Volume Licensed WinXP Pro by the "warez" aficionados.


Bruce Chambers

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[Rctfreak]

Also I have xp
corporate pro version so I dont need to worry about activation and all that

Then trot on over to whatever site you got your pirate version of XP
from and ask them.

 

[BulkRate]

Hi, Im going to be switching motherboards in one of my systems. Its not a
drastic switch as its the same brand board, similar setup etc. Also I have xp
corporate pro version so I dont need to worry about activation and all that. I
have lots of programs installed on that machine and it all works fine. I would
like to not have to reinstall from scratch. Ive done this before with 98 and me
without too much hassle but I know xp is another story. Can someoneone post a
link or point me in a direction to find out how to do the motherboard switch
without messing up the xp installation. I really dont want to see "ntdlr
missing" when I go to boot it up. Thanks.

George

I have swapped out 2 "similar" mobos with no problems. Less than a
week ago I swapped out an ASUS P4S533-E with an ASUS P4S333. The one
swapped out had a SiS 645DX chipset with the SiS 962 Northbridge. The
one that replaced it was a slightly older mobo with an SiS 645 chipset
and an SiS 961 Northbridge. They are 'very' close. The major
differences were USB 2 and FSB 533 support. I uninstalled all of the
USB support out of hardware manager and replaced the mobo. First boot
was a little long, but after that hardware detection and the
subsequent reboot, the PC was up and running. No re-activation or
driver disks were required. Running Windows XP Pro retail. HTH.

Ron

 

[Guest]

Now I have a verion of Win XP Pro that I purchased from my technical college, it comes without any books and you get NO SUPPORT from MS. However it is reusable I know this as I had a hard drive Promise ata raid controller that would not wok under XP ( I had to load XP a second time on another drive to access my home work and break appart the raid drive from the Asus MB as the PCI cad had to be updated to work under XP and I no longer had Win 98SE to use dos in an attempt to upgrade the PCI card, so ends the mirriored array and Now have three drives all with Win XP on them) THIS IS A LEGAL VERSION for students/academics it works just like my Office 200 version which also has no MS support or BOOKS! why does every one with a problem have to have an ILLEGAL copy???

 

[CS]

Now I have a verion of Win XP Pro that I purchased from my technical college, it comes without any books and you get NO SUPPORT from MS. However it is reusable I know this as I had a hard drive Promise ata raid controller that would not wok under XP ( I had to load XP a second time on another drive to access my home work and break appart the raid drive from the Asus MB as the PCI cad had to be updated to work under XP and I no longer had Win 98SE to use dos in an attempt to upgrade the PCI card, so ends the mirriored array and Now have three drives all with Win XP on them) THIS IS A LEGAL VERSION for students/academics it works just like my Office 200 version which also has no MS support or BOOKS! why does every one with a problem have to have an ILLEGAL copy???

Because it seems we have several MS apologists that feel they have to
play "cop" for the evil empire. They will always assume someone is
guilty before they have all the facts. Just ignore them. You don't
owe them or anyone else here an explanation.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Now I have a verion of Win XP Pro that I purchased from my technical college, it comes without any books and you get NO SUPPORT from MS. However it is reusable I know this as I had a hard drive Promise ata raid controller that would not wok under XP ( I had to load XP a second time on another drive to access my home work and break appart the raid drive from the Asus MB as the PCI cad had to be updated to work under XP and I no longer had Win 98SE to use dos in an attempt to upgrade the PCI card, so ends the mirriored array and Now have three drives all with Win XP on them) THIS IS A LEGAL VERSION for students/academics it works just like my Office 200 version which also has no MS support or BOOKS! why does every one with a problem have to have an ILLEGAL copy?

Because a lot of people come here trying to find ways of getting round
problems they are having because they *do* have illegal copies. Some
unwittingly, there were quite a lot sold in grey market without the
purchasers being aware. Some blatant. There was a case of a guy who it
turned out had bought an academic copy, like you, and was trying to work
out how he could get away with selling it at substantial profit. So
people tend to look with suspicion, until they find otherwise.

As to the question implied by your subject: if you make a major hardware
change, you need to do at least a repair reinstall - Set the BIOS to
boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start Setup (do not take
'Repair' at this stage), then after the license agreement take 'Repair
Installation'. This will retain your existing software installations
and most settings. But Updates will have to be run again, especially
SP1;
It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm.

This is where you *may* run into trouble: so much change may result in
your needing to reactivate, and after a repair you would have to do it
by phoning in (a format and clean install gives you 30 days, and
provided it was over 120 since first doing so it will go through). Now
it is just *possible* that they might say that the license for an
academic version is, like an 'OEM one, tied to the original machine, and
this is no longer original. I don't think they should on a repair; but
there is a grey area here, and you certainly would not be allowed to
take it away after your course and install on an entirely different
machine.