Tim, Does this mean you think I can move the old HD's into the new box but boot off of my original Windows installation disk and run a find new hardware sequence, or something like that? It's been so long, happily, since I have had to use my installation disk that I can't remember what the options are when it boots up.
If I got it running, could I then xxcopy from the old HD's to the new directly rather than going through the USB HD step? If so, could I then change the boot sequence so the machine boots from the new faster HD? Can you tell if, from my questions, that I don't understand enough of what I might be doing that I would be better off reinstalling (please say it ain't so). But I think this is possible. Harry -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Slattery, Tim - BLS Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: new HD radix: ? migration > I have been told by a couple of folks, including the people I > bought new box from, that because the new CPU has a different > chipset than the old that I can't just swap out my HD's from > the old box to the new, which had been my plan. IMHO, you should be able to do this. You will most likely need to boot from your installation CD and run a repair install in order to to get the proper drivers for the new hardware in the proper places. -- Tim Slattery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
