December 13th, 2003, 09:22 AM
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I have all the stuff to upgrade my PC.
I will have:
- new CPU
- new Motherboard
- new Harddisks (SATA RAID0)
My question:
Would it work if I mirror my old HD on the SATA RAID or do I have to rebuild the OS and all the applications again.
I am concerned that the amount of HW change will bring XP into trouble.
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December 13th, 2003, 11:19 PM
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I seriously doubt that you could change a mobo with onboard sound... without reinstalling windows.
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December 14th, 2003, 01:12 AM
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Sure you can.
Change the hardware, then boot from the Windows CD, and use the 'repair' option.
You will need to re-activate Windows, but it should work with no problem.
I've done it a number of times, including motherboard upgrades.
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December 14th, 2003, 08:43 PM
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Im one of those people that just format and reinstall everything compulsivly. I like my windows fresh. | |
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December 14th, 2003, 09:04 PM
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Pretty sure microsoft recommends a reinstall when you switch motherboards.
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December 14th, 2003, 10:43 PM
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yeah, i agree... reinstall everything from scratch.
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December 14th, 2003, 10:44 PM
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yeah i agree.. reinstall everything from scratch.. it will give you lesser or no problem.. | |
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December 14th, 2003, 10:59 PM
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I installed all my new hardware, repaired window.
Everything works fine.
Now my second problem.
The system has now 1 IDE disk (the old one) with the windows installation. Plus a SATA Raid array.
I would like to copy the windows installation to the Raid array and use this as the boot disk.
Any advice on the steps how to do this would be greatly appreciated. | |
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December 14th, 2003, 11:40 PM
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I would definitely recommend a re-install but I have done what you are asking with 98 and ME [never XP]. I went into "device manager" and deleted the sound, video, many of the items under "system devices" and anything else that is specific to your old board. Leave the keyboard and mouse. Then shut down and move to new machine. Start the new machine. At start up Windows will start re-installing all the new devices and the ones you deleted. I had several duplicate entries under "system devices" when I was done but just deleted them and restarted again and all was fine. Good Luck
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December 14th, 2003, 11:56 PM
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just do the repair unless u r bored and need to blow some time | |
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