Yes. The big kicker is the attachment to the IDE driver. So, here's a solution (if you have it handy)
Get a PATA or SATA (depending on your drive) PCI Controller card. Install it. Get your old installation to see it, then move your primary drive over to it. It will boot up just fine on the next reboot, detect a new device, prompt you to restart. Fine. On next restart, just shut down and swap Motherboards. Leave your HDD attached to the PATA/SATA PCI controller. It will boot up fine, detect all the new devices. After all new devices are detected, swap the HDD from being attached to the card to the motherboard. You'll get a notice that Windows has to be reactivated within 3 days (in most cases ;) And away you go! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Dodge Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:47 AM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Motherboard upgrade Well my XP install which I use most of the time is on a different partition than the boot which is a buggered 2000 server which I can not get into any more. I also have a couple of betas on other partitions and I know it is pretty messed up but I got XP running just the way I want and I just do not want to spend weeks getting it all back. I wish there was a way to get my current install to the C partition and still keep everything else the same but I have installs spread out all over the place. It is not very well organized. I tried once doing an image of each partition on each drive and it was like 7 DVD's just for the C. I am just wondering if anyone has replaced a board and been able to boot back into XP and successfully kept the original install?????? Mark Dodge MD Computers 360-772-2433 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:21 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade Assuming it will boot completely at all. Even then, you can count on it not working very well until you do a proper format/reinstall. Why not just back up the boot volume and do it proper? (Please don't tell me you used the full drive capacity as your boot volume....) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Dodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'The Hardware List'" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:06 PM Subject: [H] Motherboard upgrade >I am going to install an Epox 9NPA and a 3500 and I am making sure that > there are not going to be any snafus. I have way to many gigs to try to > back > up and I am worried that XP will not start at all. I currently have a MSI > Neo3 and going to Nforce4 it will not be quite the same. Should I expect > XP > to do similar to 98 in that it will find the differences and install the > correct drivers as it boots in? > > Mark Dodge > MD Computers > 360-772-2433 > >
