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Moving Windows XP pro to different hardware - revisited

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logicmaster2003

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Hey guys,

Last August, I successfully made my 500GB harddrive (winXP + games) boot on another machine by following this...

http://www.solriche.co.uk/files/misc/move_xp.html

* the 500GB was originally installed using :Asrock 939 dual sata 2 / AMD Opteron-148
* the new machine setup: Biostar P4M900-SE-7 / Pentium D945

I was able to enjoy a 'shortcut' of not having to re-install winXP + all the games / mods / patches. The new system worked from August 2008 until 2 weeks ago when either mobo or cpu got overheated.

Now I have a new mobo/cpu ( Asus M3A78-CM / AMD Phenom? II X4 940 Black Edition Quad-Core) and am having no luck with this.

Next, I found a very recent article on maximumpc "The best reader submitted winXP tips" and one of them is "changing motherboard without reinstalling winXP".
http://www.maximumpc.com/artic...-submitted-WinXP-tips-
It goes ....... "go into device manager and change the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers to "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller". You do this by going to update driver and then selecting "Don't Search. I will choose the driver to install." Then select the "Standard....Controller." ------ I was able to boot to SAFE MODE and did these.

but that didn't help either.

next, while in SAFEMODE, I copied the whole CDROM driver that came with the new Asus M3A78-CM into c:\windows\system32\drivers.

what other tricks can I do while in safemode ??

anyone with enough experience with these stuffs ? Please don't bash me with "do fresh win XP install + reinstall all ur games / mods / maps / patches". I won't be in the mood for it.

Thanks for understanding and helps.
 
Originally posted by: logicmaster2003


anyone with enough experience with these stuffs ? Please don't bash me with "do fresh win XP install + reinstall all ur games / mods / maps / patches". I won't be in the mood for it.
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Reinstalling an OS on a new build is EXTREMLY recommended as an easy way to make sure everything works. I've installed new mobo's with an existing OS and made sure to uninstall old mobo drivers and installed the new mobo drivers and it worked fine but to ensure stability you will want to reinstall OS.

Go into safe mode and uninstall the mobo drivers and install the new ones. Should work fine.
 
Thank you both so much for your suggestions - I will try BOTH of your solutions 🙂

I would vote for fresh install but the problem is - I don't want to go thru all those hazzles of transferring ALL my steam games (counterstrike, halflife2, etc) and the rest of my 40+ installed games where I'd already spent endless months of downloading patches / mods / new maps.
 
oh yea FYI, my winXP (32-bit) is on a 15 GB partition, all my games on another partition.

I would love to wipe out my winXP paritition and fresh-install Vista-64, but then the headache will be how to access my games partition. What is needed so all my games will just work ? does it have something to do with Registries where it probably holds all the games serial numbers ?
 
Hi erocool84,

What I did was boot up to safemode, then used Driver Cleaner Pro to wipe out the old video card.
Next I went to Computer Management and did a Scan for hardware change, then I point everything to the ASUS CDROM and everything with question marks got updated with the correct drivers off the CDROM.

Next, I run CCLEANER to clean out the old registries and other garbages.

After reboot, I still get the blue screen of death 🙁

Question: where in the computer management does the Motherboard driver resides ?


 
oh where the hell is Jebus Christ when I needed him !! Been messing with these for 23 hours straight !!

anyways.. I found another tip -> http://episteme.arstechnica.co.../77909774/m/1400925745

and like you suggested.. I booted up to SAFEMODE then use the above tip to do driver clean up.

I'm tired of all of these... after solid 23 hours of no sleep and not going to school 🙁

I just don't want to go thru those hazzles with fresh-install of XP... cuz then I have to re-install all my games especially STEAM (half life 2, episode1, eposide2, counterstrike + alllllllll the mods / maps) which totals to 44 GB. Not to mention Battlefield2 totals to over 50GB. And those are just 2 of my many many games !

I have acronis backup of EACH individual games. I just wish theres a way I can simply install VISTA64 on my winXP partition, then make my GAME Partition just work. Can I like copy registry ?
 
😀 😀 😀 😀

Guys, I'm still here (28 hours later).. haven't slept !!

Anyways.. problem solved !! and I want to share my final solution with you guys, since I'd spent that much time reading and trying all the tips that I could possibly find.

The objective again is : to mount winXP + games HDD that was built on another PC (biostar p4m900-m7-se with intel pentium D945) and need to boot from a new machine (Asus M3A78-CM with AMD Phenom? II X4 940 Black Edition Quad-Core).

Heres my solution (which is the combination of every tips that I'd read)...

1) boot to SAFE MODE (if you get BSOD on normal window bootup)
2) Open a command CMD and enter these:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc
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3) at Device Manager's "View" menu, set show hidden devices. Uninstall all the parasitic craps from your old motherboard (the ones that are like grayed-out).
4) put ur new mobo CD in CDROM and at the Device Manager, set scan for new hardware and point everything to the CDROM drive.
5) reboot and this time, boot to RECOVERY CONSOLE and type LISTSVC. A list of drivers loaded on startup will be displayed (press space bar to go 2 next page).
6) Locate the IDE drivers, write the names of those IDE down, hit <esc>, type DISABLE <names> using disable command (example: DISABLE IntelIDE, and things like that).
7) Once the IDE drivers are disabled (safeboot mode lets you disable but it doesnt really disable them !!! ), exit and reboot
8) On reboot, WinXP will automatically ignore the just disabled parasitic IDE garbage and will boot using the drivers on step 4

 
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