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I've finally gotten everything tweaked and running exactly the way I want, except lately I've been running into what appears to be some sort of looming hardware failure.
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And so I haven't needed to do anything resembling a full system install/re-install in years. I always save a couple of older C-drive images, in case there's a bad MS Update, a program that totally hoses the system, or the system gets hit with some trojan/virus, etc. I learned a while back to scale down and partition my system drive to +/- 20GB, store data on other partitions/drives, and back up the C-drive regularly with Power Quest's Drive Image. But then I came back to my senses, and figured that was just way too many changes to go off without a hitch, so I started checking help sites and found this thread. At first I thought it would be a simple matter of just unhooking everything, taking the old mobo/cpu/psu/memory out, then putting the new stuff along with the old stuff back in. *Note* this thread is based upon this thred at hardocp and this one at dfi street.ĭo all the exact same issues apply to W2K? I'm thinking very seriously about upgrading my current system, an AMD XP 1800+/Asus A7V333, to an AMD X2 3800+/MSI K8N Neo2-F.
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'The Password Is Not Valid' error in recovery console. STOP 0x0000007B or INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE
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The setup should prompt you for drivers it does not have, so lucky you that you downloaded them in step 1
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Your machine will shutdown when the process is completed.Ĥ: Install your new mainboard and any other hardware, when you boot it up Windows should launch a mini setup wizard, similar to the normal 2000/XP install. We will use it in a similar way, but only on a single system.ġ: Download all the latest drivers for your system, especially remember the LAN drivers since XP might not support it by default and then it will be difficult to download the rest of the drivers when you have no net connectionĢ: Extract sysprep from your Windows install CD, it is under \support\tools\deploy.cab) to c:\sysprep (it can also be downloaded for XP or 2000.ģ: Start Sysprep.exe choose Mini-Setup, PnP, and then Reseal. It's real use is in big organizations where you can configure a system the way it must be to be able to work in your organization, then you run sysprep and it removes the machine specific drivers/settings allowing you to make a Ghost image of the install and push it out to thousands of different machines which will all be configured peoperly by the mini setup that Sysprep configures the machines to run on the next bootup.
There is a better way, it's called Sysprep. So you have had that Windows XP or 2000 install working very nicley over a year or more and it's only working as good as it ever is going to get with countless of tweaks and hundreds of installed applications and updates, all configured to your liking, next you decide to buy a new/other mainboard and start cyring over either having to do a clean install (the proper way) or a repair of your Windows installation (resetting your registry to default meaning most of your apps and config changes will no longer work.)
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