Swapping mobo in Win2k machine, any way to "keep" installation?

SB118 · 13 Mar 2007 at 18:03

Customers computer is at deaths door and they've bought a basic system (from here!) and a windows XP licence (to use the backwards compatability of the xp/2k licence and stay legit)

What do i need to do/uninstall/disable to be able to put the drive in the new machine and get win2k running again.

Once it's running happily i'll be copying the info over to the 80gig sata drive that came with the machine.

Cheers

SB118 · 13 Mar 2007 at 19:10

marc2003 said:
http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Articles&go=read&arc_id=36

Looks nice, but this 2k installation bluescreens trying to boot from the new mobo.

SB118 · 13 Mar 2007 at 19:13

i did

Did the driver clean, the ACPI turnoff, turned off ACPI in the new mobo, then tried to boot and it still goes BSOD

SB118 · 13 Mar 2007 at 21:00

Keep getting the

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" : "0x0000007B (0xEB81F84C,0xC000000E,0x00000000,0x00000000)"

SB118 · 13 Mar 2007 at 21:56

hoo-ra!

Turns out just uninstalling the old mobo ide drivers wasn't enough, had to switch it over the generic EISA/ISA drivers before chucking it into the other machine.

Happy day