What registry folder to delete when installing old hard drive on new motherboard/cpu?

[Syborg1211]

I really cannot reformat my drive right now so the next best thing is clearing my registry of all the old remnants of my other comp. I've done this before but not on windows XP. In 98 it was the enum folder but I cant seem to find that in XP

 

[Syborg1211]

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[bot2600]

I really don't recommend it, but I have moved a windows 2000 harddrive from a k62 with built in video to a athlon with a radeon VE after the owner of the k62 tried to remove his heatsink and stuck the screwdriver half way through the motherboard...anyhow, windows 2000 booted up fine and got all the hardware straight first power up. He has been using the machine for almost 2 months with no problems, so should be able to get away with it on XP as well. I didnt delete anything out of the registry or from system properties, windows 2000 did it all by itself.

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[Syborg1211]

Ive got a HighPoint ata66 controller somewhere in here that causes my drive not to boot up on my new system. It gives me an error saying to check for viruses and to uninstall any newly installed drive controllers or drives.

 

[Syborg1211]

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[holycow]

you shouldn't need to delete any folder from the registry. when i instal my old harddrive onto a new mobo, all i did was doing a 'hdd drive detection' in the bios, then save the new bio setting and reboot.. after your computer reboots, windows will look for all the necessary driver to install during the startup.. if windows can't find the driver it needs for the hardware, it will tell you then you have to manually install them..

if i were you, i would make sure that i have all the hardare drivers ready in c drive(put them in a folder/directory). if by any chance windows can't find the appropriate hardware driver after you installed the hdd on the new mobo, you can install the missing driver during the window startup.

 

[Syborg1211]

when I put the hard drive in my new motherboard, windows doesn't even get a chance to boot up. As soon as it tries it gives a blue screen saying that it has stopped windows because there is a problem with the hard drive. I know the drive works because I just swapped it back into the old motherboard. Windows won't auto detect if windows doesnt start. PLEASE JUST TELL ME WHAT FOLDER TO DELETE!!! Ive been sitting here with this cpu in the motherboard for a few days now and I can't use it because I cant use my hard drive on it!

 

[Ben]

You can't boot because Windows doesn't have drivers for your High point controller installed.

Either:
A) Your going to have to reinstall Windows. You may get away with NOT formatting but I'm not sure.

B) You might be able to use the regular IDE plug on your motherboard (not the High Point port) and boot your computer. At that point you may be able to install the high point drivers and then move the IDE cable back to the high point controller.

I doubt there is a folder you can delete that would cause the redetection of your hardware. WinXP is based on the NT kernel. It works differently than the 9x kernel.

 

[ragiepew]

I suggest doing what Ben stated... plug the drive on a non raid (non highpoint) channel and boot that way. Worse comes to worse... boot to safemode and then install the highpoint drivers. After doing that then you may be able to go and boot from highpoint.

To be honest though... i'd really format my drive and start w/ a fresh installation. If you have multiple partitions on the HDD then just backup your stuff on your D: or E: (or whatever driveletters you have) and install Windows fresh on a new formatted C: partition. Remember, you dont need to format the entire drive... only the partition you want to install windows on. Hell, you dont really even need to format

 

[earthman]

Why don't you guys just answer the question? If you delete the "Enum" folders under HkeyLocalMachine and HkeyCurrentConfig you will eliminate all hardware info from Windows....if that is what you are after. On XP it should be under HkeyLocalMachine/System/Enum, but there are alot of enum subkeys. I haven't tried this on XP so no guarantees this works.