Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
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"C. J." wrote:
| Windows XP Pro. With all updates to date 8-20-04
| We have a ongoing XP Pro upgrade problem:
| The problem is that we have graphic artist customers that want to update
| their mother board and cpu’s every 12 to 18 months. Their systems have a lot
| of adoabe and Microsoft software, printer and network configurations that
| take 10 to 14 hours to load, configure, update and test per terminal. We have
| been unable to take a working Hard Drive and remove it from the old cpu and
| install it in the new cpu and have XP reconfigure itself. We were able to do
| this on Win 98. Our customers do not like to pay the hourly rates to do this
| upgrade. Do you have a procedure for allowing a mother board and or cpu
| upgrade without having to reload the entire operating and program system.
| Thanks
| C. J.