Windows XP repair after motherboard swap

[JKP]

howdy all,

Here's my situation: Replaced a motherboard in a client's system.
Existing XP Home installation would not boot even in Safe Mode due to
hardware differences.

I did a parallel installation of XP Pro from my own disk and got them
running so they could access their data, but this copy is not activated
and I need to get their original legal copy of XP Home working again.
The only "Windows" CD they have is an OEM restore disk that replaces
the entire partition.

Here's the million dollar question, and you guys are my Phone A Friend
lifeline...

How can I remove or change the driver info in the XP Home install,
while booted up into the XP Pro install, so that I can then boot into
XP Home?

Alternate solutions like backing up and re-installing need not apply...


Thanks in advance for any help,

Jim P.
Computing Solutions

 

[Bruce Chambers]

howdy all,

Snipped...

Answered in another newsgroup; please learn to post properly:
cross-posting vs. multi-posting.


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[JKP]

Really? I'd be fascinated to know where you think this was answered
sufficiently...

 

[Michael Stevens]

Really? I'd be fascinated to know where you think this was answered
sufficiently...

Try looking at the other newsgroups you posted the multi-posted the same
message. You have five or six replies in general and one is from Bruce.
Exactly why you should cross-post instead of multi-post.
See my signature for a link that includes information explaining the
difference.

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