[How-To]copy my windows to another system?

[Woomera]

think its posted before but think its dead now.

how can copy my whole windows and seetings(drive c) to another hard-drive with whole new hardware specs?and expect that windows boot up with new harwares configs?

[LLXX]

Norton Ghost

[Woomera]

think its posted before but think its dead now.

how can copy my whole windows and seetings(drive c) to another hard-drive with whole new hardware specs?and expect that windows boot up with new harwares configs?

did you know llxx that windows only works with the hardwares that it was installed on?and if you change the cpu,mobo it wont boot up.

Edited May 19, 2006 by fatalwoomera

[IcemanND]

first you need to know what the HAL is that is installed on the two machines if you did clean install of windows to them. They need to match or be compatible. There are ways to go between incompatible HALs but it is not always a pretty or satisfactory result.

You will also need the HDD controller drivers for te new system, the Deployment tools for your version of windows and service pack (they are different between sp1 and sp2).

Hopefully both systems use either ACPI Uniprocessor or ACPI Muliprocessor HALs, check by going to the device manager and looking under the computer heading. If the old system is uniprocessor, or both systems are the same then all you need sysprep to do when it reseals it is to add the diskcontroller drivers and redetect the hardware. If its multiprocessor and the target is uniprocessot then you need to add a line to tell sysprep to downgrade the processor when deployed, check the deploy.chm help file for details. I don't have access to it at the moment.

Then some luck and prayer.

Or you can buy a license of the Universal Imaging Utility.

[LLXX]

think its posted before but think its dead now.

how can copy my whole windows and seetings(drive c) to another hard-drive with whole new hardware specs?and expect that windows boot up with new harwares configs?

did you know llxx that windows only works with the hardwares that it was installed on?and if you change the cpu,mobo it wont boot up.

It will still boot but then ask you for drivers as it detects the new hardware.

[Woomera]

kidding me right? really? it will just ask for drivers?

[gdogg]

I read of a way to do this before.

you uninstall all your drivers, before running the ghost backup, that way you wont cause yourself issues.

if your going from, lets say, single core, to dual core (or non-HT to HT) then you will need to uninstall the hal at the same time too.

[IcemanND]

If you are going from a single core to a dual core you need to do nothing. Windows xp will automatically upgrade to a dual core, but will not go the other way.

that's the reason I said to use sysprep, it will reset the hardware state, and can install the new hdd controller drivers.

there are three problems with moving hardware to a new system the HAL, the HDD controller and the drivers. the drivers are easy, the HDD controller is a little more difficult and the HAL is limited to impossible. Sysprep makes all of it easier.

[Woomera]

i had a really bad experience with sysprep.last time i only updated my mobo and cpu.so i used sysprep and shut down the computer.changed cpu,mobo and turned on the system and during the setup it showed an error and i had to install new win.