Okay, that explains it, thanks. I've never seen Win7 do that, usually
it blue screens because it has the wrong chipset drivers for disk
access. This particular system went into a reboot loop and the blue
screen would flash for an instant and then the system would reboot. Did
you do any prep? Remember when we used to change the drive controller
drivers back to standard (XP or 2000) so that we could change the MB?
On 2/13/2014 3:51 PM, Tim Lider wrote:
The SATA driver was for the eSATA. It was not needed for the boot drive. If
needed for the boot drive, I'd probably need to use the Install DVD.
Tim Lider
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From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:40 PM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Changing the Motherboard and NOT reinstalling Win7
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: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:48 AM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
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
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