XP Home Transplant ! advice plz :-)

[RJK]

....Hard as I try I can't find this (my op psoted today 15:34 anywhere!)

In a couple of days, unfortunately, I'm going to have to completely upgrade
the hardware on an ancient XP Home ed. system box.
Or if you like, I want to transplant XP Home ed. SP3 onto much newer
hardware, rather than the ALWAYS preferable option of a fresh install. (No
XP OEM EULA lectures please - I know them off by heart !!!)

What are the chances of success, if I restore a Norton Ghost hd image to the
significantly different and much newer system box, and immediately boot from
XP Home OEM cd (slipstreamed SP3 btw), and run a XP "Repair Install," in the
hope of preserving a massive range of application software, including
"MEGGER" electricians application software - that was a bitch to set up -
getting on for two years ago ?
....am aware of SP3's 7.0.600.381 executables problem, and having to
re-register,
wuapi.dll, wuaueng1.dll, wuaueng.dll, wucltui.dll, wups2.dll, wups.dll, and
wuweb.dll
....to get Windows Update working again.

....am more concerned with what this aged XP installation will do when it
wakes up to find that all its' core files have been replaced, and there's a
different motherboard in there ! i.e. Will I get the chance to install the
motherboard drivers before it all collapses ? !

Any tips on the proposed transplant gratefully received

regards, Richard

 

[David B.]

There's a fairly decent chance that your plan will work. There is another
way around the problem which doesn't require a repair installation but does
require a PCI hard drive controller card (it is the hard drive controller
driver that is the usual cause of the BSOD after the transplant), I have
also had some luck changing the IDE driver to a standard one before the
swap.
I would first remove all sound, video, network, and other drivers for the
old system before the final shutdown, but I have found this usually isn't
necessary.

 

[David B.]

For some reason my reply doesn't seem to be showing up, let's try again.

There's a fairly decent chance that your plan will work. There is another
way around the problem which doesn't require a repair installation but does
require a PCI hard drive controller card (it is the hard drive controller
driver that is the usual cause of the BSOD after the transplant), I have
also had some luck changing the IDE driver to a standard one before the
swap.
I would first remove all sound, video, network, and other drivers for the
old system before the final shutdown, but I have found this usually isn't
necessary.