Thanks for the confirmation. I'll put the cloned drive in the original system, strip all drivers specific to the previous hardware and slap that back into the new system. I may preload all new drivers, if the system lets me.
Probably the chipset or disk controller at this point. Keep the suggestions coming so I can start fresh in the morning. I'll keep trying till I run out of options. Then I'll try a sysprep and see how that butchers the user profiles. If that fails, it will be a fresh install. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Daniel Chenault <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a little more complex than that. Basically the HAL is wrong. I believe a multicore Pentium and a multicore i5 will use the same HAL. > You *might* be able to fix it by booting in safe mode and (assuming it > boots at > all) removing ALL device drivers, then reboot and have it prompt you. I don't believe removing all device drivers (a) is possible[1], nor (b) will change the HAL. -- Ben [1] Well, I suppose you could go in and nuke the entire HKLM\System\CCS\Services branch in the registry, but that's not going to leave you a functioning system.
