I have always used Acronis for this kind of thing, allows clones between VERY different hardware.
I once got a DL380 server with SBS 2008 on it to clone and boot off a laptop successfully. It was VERY slow, but there were no errors. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: 28 August 2014 07:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it *shrug* I've done it many times says the guy who owned a shop and did this regularly as part of upgrades. Doesn't always work though, especially AMD<->Intel (not relevant here). When it doesn't work a re-install is in order. To rebuild the HAL. It's usually the chipset; if the driver is for a family the same, or close, the chipset there's hope. Removing all drivers uses generic windows drivers. That's usually enough to get basic functionality, enough to get the correct ones in place. As for Pentium vs. i5. Maybe; close enough in basic functionality. >> On Aug 27, 2014, at 20:15, "Ben Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. > > SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
