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Can I use an image on a totally new system?

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Lcarvone

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A couple days back I made a backup image of the hard drive on my daughter's computer. Over the next few weeks that computer will be totally revamped with only CDRW, floppy, monitor, and tower remaining the same. Once all the parts and pieces are in do I need to install a fresh OS then "restore" using the image? Will that even work since I will be changing a lot of hardware (i.e. mobo)? First time doing the backup/restore thing so I need some advice.

Any thoughts on the best way to proceed (if even possible) are greatly appreciated.

Lcarvone
 
Maybe.

But most likely not. With the motherboard change you'll probably get a BSOD upon booting windows the first time.
 
Originally posted by: Lcarvone
A couple days back I made a backup image of the hard drive on my daughter's computer. Over the next few weeks that computer will be totally revamped with only CDRW, floppy, monitor, and tower remaining the same. Once all the parts and pieces are in do I need to install a fresh OS then "restore" using the image? Will that even work since I will be changing a lot of hardware (i.e. mobo)? First time doing the backup/restore thing so I need some advice.

Any thoughts on the best way to proceed (if even possible) are greatly appreciated.

Lcarvone
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Sure; it's easy. As long as the new and old PCs have the same HAL (hardware abstraction layer, found under Device Manager / Computer), you can get it working.

The only other issue is the hard disk controller - right before you shut down the old computer/hard drive for the last time, change the hard disk controller to "PCI Standard IDE Controller", then shut down.

Then you'll be fine. 🙂
 
Well it's not that easy....I once exchanged a Gigabyte MB for an A-Open MB (same chipset). All the other hardware was the same. The system booted ok and ran fairly well....but. I started having many small problems which I was unable to fix....despite reinstalling all drivers, and many programs. Ended up reformating, and reinstalling everything to fix the problems.

YMMV.....
 
Microsoft's take on this is that you need the same HAL and the same disk controller, or the disk controller drivers you have installed must make the new motherboard bootable (ie must boot the new motherboard's disk controllers).

The bluescreen issue is a problem with different HALs or different disk controllers rendering the machine unbootable.
 
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