If the hard drive installs in another system, then it is the original system that is knackered. Memory or I/O I would guess.
Mark Dodge MD Computers 360-772-2433 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Boswell Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:20 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Extracting profile from a dead Windows XP installation Hi guys, long story: mainboard dies replace mainboard with identical mainboard machine bluescreens during bootup in an entirely non-helpful way do repair installation of XP SP2; no change, still bluescreens put harddisk in an entirely different machine with a different chipset, do another repair install of windows, no change What. the. hell. Suggestions? the data on the disk is intact, but that windows install has utterly borked itself to FUBAR status, is there an easy/semi-easy way to transfer the profiles across to another install (which I've done and works) on the same disk yes yes, I know, take backups... :( help plz. -_-_ James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 1653327 | AIM : TorazChryx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
