Hardware upgrade on WinXP, how to avoid complete reinstall?

[suszterpatt]

I'll be taking a hard drive with a WinXP install on it, and popping it into a new machine (different mobo, CPU, everything). Is there any way I can avoid completely reinstalling Windows, or at least to preserve installed programs and settings?

The way I understand it, the reason I'd need a reinstall is due to the HAL. Is there perhaps a way of reinstalling only that?

 

[bruceb]

Please look at this link:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

 

[tweakboy]

Do a repair install. Stick in CD and boot up into it,, and do a repair installation it should clean all your issues.. gl