You can sometimes force the install of the drivers needed to boot up on the new motherboard, while you are running from the old motherboard.
I kind-of did this a few days ago when I used Drive Image to image a virtual machine created under VMWare to its own real partition. All I did was run the driver install for my RAID controller and also the nVidia FirceWare drivers without restarting the machine, then imaged it. When I dropped the image back over a real partition it found all the drivers automatically and booted up great. Regards, Jason Tozer Database Analyst London Ext 1131 - 3SC.5 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 16:47 To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Motherboard upgrade Well my XP install which I use most of the time is on a different partition than the boot which is a buggered 2000 server which I can not get into any more. I also have a couple of betas on other partitions and I know it is pretty messed up but I got XP running just the way I want and I just do not want to spend weeks getting it all back. I wish there was a way to get my current install to the C partition and still keep everything else the same but I have installs spread out all over the place. It is not very well organized. I tried once doing an image of each partition on each drive and it was like 7 DVD's just for the C. I am just wondering if anyone has replaced a board and been able to boot back into XP and successfully kept the original install?????? Mark Dodge MD Computers 360-772-2433 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:21 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade Assuming it will boot completely at all. Even then, you can count on it not working very well until you do a proper format/reinstall. Why not just back up the boot volume and do it proper? (Please don't tell me you used the full drive capacity as your boot volume....) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Dodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:06 PM Subject: [H] Motherboard upgrade >I am going to install an Epox 9NPA and a 3500 and I am making sure that > there are not going to be any snafus. I have way to many gigs to try to > back > up and I am worried that XP will not start at all. I currently have a MSI > Neo3 and going to Nforce4 it will not be quite the same. Should I expect > XP > to do similar to 98 in that it will find the differences and install the > correct drivers as it boots in? > > Mark Dodge > MD Computers > 360-772-2433 > > ******* This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information about Clifford Chance please see our website at http://www.cliffordchance.com or refer to any Clifford Chance office. This firm is not authorised by the Financial Services Authority. However, we are included on the Register maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activity in the UK, which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by The Law Society. The Register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at www.fsa.gov.uk/register.
