Guts upgrade, will system boot off original SATA harddrive?

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#36910 3-Jul-2009 12:50

Hi all,

I'm taking a 4 year old socket 939 computer and upgrading the motherboard/CPU and RAM.
I'm taking the power supply, case, hard drive from the existing setup.

Is it likely that I'll be able to boot this up with the windows XP currently installed on the SATA hard drive?
The drivers etc will be for the original board.

What am I likely to be getting myself in for here?
How would others approach this task?

Cheers!

Motherboard/CPU combo is:

http://pconlineshop.co.nz.219.88.240.130.orcon.net.nz/pcshop/product_info.php?cPath=9_28&products_id=293185&RBTid=c4022d2af923ddbaf9a8a14fb5d555fc

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#230656 3-Jul-2009 12:56

It might boot and it might not - probably hit a BSOD - one choice without reinstalling from scratch is to boot off your XP CD and perform a repair (not the 1st one the XP CD gives but the 2nd)
This usually will get you by.

Personally I prefer to do a full reinstall when changing motherboards, just saves on any potential headaches.

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#230663 3-Jul-2009 13:19

xpd:
Personally I prefer to do a full reinstall when changing motherboards, just saves on any potential headaches.

I agree with this.

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#230944 4-Jul-2009 10:51

Do a google search for IDEmerge.

This deletes all the hardware handles in the registry.
I have used it to great success on numerous occasions.
You just run the batch file just before shutdown in the old pc.

Hmmmm

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#231704 6-Jul-2009 16:46

hmm never is a good idea it may work it my not as said before its a better idea to do a clean install
i'm about to do the same thing as you asus m3a32 + amd athlon x2 7750BE + 2gig ddr2 1066 i'll be doing the clean install even though both mobo's use an ATI north bridge they use totaly different south bridges ULi/ALi M1575 on the a8r32 but it's an ATI sb600 on the m3a32 with different sata controllers to so i'll also be rebuilding my raid0 array

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#231907 7-Jul-2009 09:41

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I was prepared to do a clean install. I've put the drive in another computer and copied off the my documents folder. Only thing I haven't got by doing this is the emails/contacts from outlook.

The existing XP was an academic version as the owner was a teacher, but I no longer have access to these discs from the school. XP is basically not easily (cheaply) available but there is a vista academic upgrade available, and some with a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out. If need be I'll have to do a clean install of vista which I'd stayed away from until now. Pity Windows 7 hasn't been released yet, or is the trial/beta version pretty stable now?

Anyway i'll try it all first tonight and see if it boots up under the original XP but at the back of my mind now I'm thinking it will get wiped/formatted and loaded with vista if I have any problems.

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#231948 7-Jul-2009 11:13

Im running the RC7100 of Windows 7 at home with no problems (apart from a couple of older games not working).

Id rather run Windows 98 than Vista :-p

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#232284 8-Jul-2009 09:13

Ha, anticlimax! Put all the new gear in and it didn't even boot. The powersupply was an older 20 pin job, so will replace this today with a newer 24 pin PSU and try again.

Yeah I'd rather put XP on as well, though vista is now probably a lot better than it was initially. The academic vista upgrade pack is not entitled to a free windows 7 upgrade either.

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#232293 8-Jul-2009 09:27

Don't know if it copes with Vista, but Server '03 and XP reinstall nicely with StorageCraft's Shadowprotect product with hardware independent restore.

Very slick, very convenient.

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#232297 8-Jul-2009 09:49

tonyhughes: Don't know if it copes with Vista, but Server '03 and XP reinstall nicely with StorageCraft's Shadowprotect product with hardware independent restore.

Very slick, very convenient.

Must use something similar to idemerge

Hmmmm

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#232306 8-Jul-2009 10:05

Im pretty sure that you can use any XP key with their appropriate discs if you can borrow one.
Pro OEM
Pro Volume Licence
Pro Retail
Home OEM
Home Retail

I'd imagine the key would work with the pro volume licence disc or the retail disc.