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Prompted by the SATA drive upate thread, I thought I'd share
the easiest way of taking a perfectly functional WinXP onto
a completely new hardware (motherboard, CPU, video, etc)
without any reinstallation or "repair installation" (which is
confusing and does not always work).
1. Download the program
http://rapidshare.com/files/18172527/WinMBoardMig.zip
This one is for Win XP2 only! If you are upgrading SP3,
go to step #2. Else, proceed to #3.
2. Update the program to WinXP SP3:
After extracting the ZIP, you will find that every file in directories
\WinMBoardMig\CriticalDrivers
\WinMBoardMig\Kernel
is from XP2. You MUST replace each of these files with its
equivalent from SP3. (Go to your SP3 \i386\ directory, search
for a filename and copy to your \WinMBoardMig\ directory).
3. [Optional] From you XP system on old hardware,
Remove/Uninstall all drivers that are going to be obsoleted by
the upgrade.
4. Start BartPE, run WinMBoardMig.exe from wherever you
unpacked the original files and when the program asks for a
windows location, point it to the windows directory
(typically, C:\Windows\ ). Shut down after the program
finishes (only takes few seconds).
5. Put new hardware in.
6. Start old windows as usual - it will pick up, autodetect and try
installing drivers for all the new hardware. Naturally, you should
have new drivers for everything available on CD or copied
somewhere on a hard drive in advance.
7. Reactivate your Windows when asked (invariably happens with
MB and CPU updates, varies with others).
I've used this procedure on two machines now and it went
totally flawlessly both times. I'd say whoever wrote this
WinMBoardMig program (seems to be some guy in Israel),
did a great job - much better than anyhthing MS ever offered
along the same lines.
the easiest way of taking a perfectly functional WinXP onto
a completely new hardware (motherboard, CPU, video, etc)
without any reinstallation or "repair installation" (which is
confusing and does not always work).
1. Download the program
http://rapidshare.com/files/18172527/WinMBoardMig.zip
This one is for Win XP2 only! If you are upgrading SP3,
go to step #2. Else, proceed to #3.
2. Update the program to WinXP SP3:
After extracting the ZIP, you will find that every file in directories
\WinMBoardMig\CriticalDrivers
\WinMBoardMig\Kernel
is from XP2. You MUST replace each of these files with its
equivalent from SP3. (Go to your SP3 \i386\ directory, search
for a filename and copy to your \WinMBoardMig\ directory).
3. [Optional] From you XP system on old hardware,
Remove/Uninstall all drivers that are going to be obsoleted by
the upgrade.
4. Start BartPE, run WinMBoardMig.exe from wherever you
unpacked the original files and when the program asks for a
windows location, point it to the windows directory
(typically, C:\Windows\ ). Shut down after the program
finishes (only takes few seconds).
5. Put new hardware in.
6. Start old windows as usual - it will pick up, autodetect and try
installing drivers for all the new hardware. Naturally, you should
have new drivers for everything available on CD or copied
somewhere on a hard drive in advance.
7. Reactivate your Windows when asked (invariably happens with
MB and CPU updates, varies with others).
I've used this procedure on two machines now and it went
totally flawlessly both times. I'd say whoever wrote this
WinMBoardMig program (seems to be some guy in Israel),
did a great job - much better than anyhthing MS ever offered
along the same lines.