Re: Re: [OT] mobo swap

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya Rob,
Its been a while since I've done an upgrade, but I think that when you
do a normal install and choose the directory to install to, windows
checks to see if it is already there - if so it asks if you want to
upgrade.
but it has been a while :)

hopefully not too late :)
Wayne.


Rob Lamb wrote:

>I found that in the archives but couldn't see an option to 'upgrade'
>from the CD. The 'sysprep' option also doesn't work on an XP Home
>edition so I just tried swapping over the mobo and as can probably
>be expected, XP just refused to boot. I guess it's going to be a
>clean install then....
>
>Rob
>
>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Wayne <wayne@p...> wrote:
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>>Yeah,
>>I /think/ it went something along the lines of,
>>before changing anything hardware - user your XP cd to do
>>
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>an 'upgrade'
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>>install.
>>At the point where it wants to reboot (after copying a load of
>>
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>stuff to
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>>the disk) - power off
>>change your hardware
>>restart.
>>XP then carries on running the 'upgrade' routine that then does
>>
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>all the
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>>PNP checks - and /hopefully/ redetects everything.
>>
>>hopefully :)
>>
>>Wayne.
>>
>>
>>Mark McCall wrote:
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>>>There was a post about this a few weeks ago - someone had the
>>>
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>definitive way
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>>>to do this I think.  Try the archive.
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