Tim,
Interesting! How did you 'add drivers manually on SATA' if all you did
was turn it on? Sounds like you booted from the install or recovery disks.
Steve
On 2/13/2014 2:01 PM, Tim Lider wrote:
When I went from my old Core2 CPU to the new System with the i7 in it. All
I did is turn it on and the drivers installed by themselves, did need to add
drivers manually on the SATA.
In Windows 8 it's basically the same way. Did a motherboard swap on a
Windows 8 system and it worked like a champ afterward.
Going about using the CD is something that is needed if the "boot upgrade"
does not work. But, it also usually does not work if the boot "upgrade" does
not work.
Regards,
Tim Lider
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Changing the Motherboard and NOT reinstalling Win7
When you boot to the install disk, the first window you see asks you
Language/Time & Currency format/Keyboard. After you click next, the
next window has a big 'Install Now' in the center, however, in the
lower left corner there are two options: What to know before
installing Windows & Repair Your Computer. Click on repair your
computer and another window pops up where you can search for Windows
installations on the disks. Once you select that, it will try to
repair. After a while, it will come back and say either failed or no
problem found. After you X out of that window, you now can get to the
System Recovery Options and you can open up a command prompt. Since
Win7 puts a Sys Exclusive partition, that usually shows up as C:, and
the rest of the disk, with the Windows folder will be on another drive
letter. For me, it put it at E:
I found all this stuff here:
http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-repair-windows-7-
install-after-replacing-motherboard/
On 2/13/2014 1:29 PM, FORC5 wrote:
I thought repair installs could only be done from the desktop in W7 ?
Disguised as upgrade install.
I do not see that option when booting from the CD/DVD.
fp
At 10:20 AM 2/13/2014, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with:
If you remember a few days ago, my music computer had gone down and
it looked like the MB was loading down the +5SB. New motherboard
arrived, for Core2 Duo, there wasn't much choice, the new one is an
Asrock with a G31 chipset. The previous was a P45. Since I have a
ton of audio apps installed on this system (Complete 9 Ultimate
alone
takes 8 hours to install, then 4 hours of updates), I wanted to try
and save the install.
To be brief, letting the install CD try to repair the installation
went nowhere. Since it's a chipset difference, the install is find
just blue-screens on boot. Then I found a little trick on the web.
There apparent is a DOS command that will tell windows to install
drivers.
You put all the new drivers on a CD, boot to the install DVD, after
it finds the install location and fails to find a problem, you open
up a command windows and do this (note that the drive letters, E & F
are for where my Windows installation and DVD drive were located on
my system, YMMV): dism /image:E:\ /add-driver /Driver:F:\ /recurse
After this, Windows booted from HD and proceeded to install drivers.
It took a couple of reboots and so far everything is back to
'normal'. I need to check and see if every device is active. I had
to reactivate windows (It gave me only 3 days!), but the new
automated phone system was quick and easy. Obviously it refused to
activate automatically online, it threw out a security error.
I really did not have a big thing against a full reinstall. It
would
take a couple of days to finish, but it really cool to do something
like this to 'fool' windows.
Steve
Date: Thursday, February 13th, 2014
***Caution, Tagline Below ***
**Tallyho**
******************************************
I can't be stupid, I completed third
grade.
******************************************
