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Vista, motherboard swaps, and you

XMan

XMan

Lifer
I've tried plug and pray - doesn't work, BSOD's at boot, repair install won't work.

I've tried removing device drivers, shutting down, and rebooting with the new board. No dice, doesn't work either.

What am I missing? AFAIK you can't sysprep with Vista or at least I haven't found instructions on how to do it. It wouldn't normally be a big deal but my HTPC install is configured pre-zactly how I like it, I just want to upgrade the video, which will necessitate a motherboard swap. In this case going from P965 to 750i.
 
I can't remember, this has been a while back. I think it was pretty much too quick to read, then the PC would reboot itself.
 
Originally posted by: XMan
I've tried plug and pray - doesn't work, BSOD's at boot, repair install won't work.

I've tried removing device drivers, shutting down, and rebooting with the new board. No dice, doesn't work either.

What am I missing? AFAIK you can't sysprep with Vista or at least I haven't found instructions on how to do it. It wouldn't normally be a big deal but my HTPC install is configured pre-zactly how I like it, I just want to upgrade the video, which will necessitate a motherboard swap. In this case going from P965 to 750i.
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You don't remove drivers - you add them. Assuming the HAL is the same, you should be able to add the hard drive controller's drivers (for your new motherboard) while the drive is in the old motherboard, and then reboot with the new motherboard. Can you give that a shot?
 
Clean install

Yes you can get it working fine and I've done it before but best method to make sure everything works 100% is a clean install.
 
While I don't know how to fix it (I just reinstall the os). The times when I had gotten BSOD when swapping mainboards was when the SATA controllers were different.
P45, P43 and p35 i've switched without any trouble. Switching from those to either p31 or 780g or vice versa gave me BSOD.
 
I admit I've done very little with Vista backups/restores. But I've read that if you use Vista Complete PC Backup (disk iimage) and do a Restore, the restore is supposed to be hardware independent. Not true?

Edit: Whoops. I think that's Server 2008 "Windows Server Backup" that's hardware independent. I've assumed that WSB and Vista's Complete PC Backup work the same. Maybe not.

Backup Assist's article on restoring Vista and Server 2008 to dissimilar hardware.

Wikipedia: WBAdmin - Vista and Server 2008

"WBAdmin.exe is a command-line utility built into Microsoft?s latest Windows operating systems: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The utility is used to perform backups and restores of operating systems, drive volumes, files, folders, and applications from a command prompt.
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Two kinds of restore operations are supported using WBAdmin:

2) Bare metal restore: using the Windows Recovery Environment you can complete a full server restoration to either the same server or to a server with dissimilar hardware (known as Hardware Independent Restore ? HIR)"
 
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