Upgrade question 183
This might be helpful to anyone on the list who is thinking about buying new equipment: Please spread this to other lists, as well, in the hopes that...
On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:18:45 -0400, JTJersey Using Trueimage software I restored an image from my old drive to the new. To...
Hello all. First off, I'm running Win98SE. Blast. I don't know what happened here. I turned my computer on and it had some registry error (which seemed to deal with...
Like I said... I've done it numerous times with new boards. If you just ghosted your drive then you did something wrong as I've done that several times, too. If you started out slick and installed then that's not a repair install... that's a fresh install and of course you'd be starting over.
A properly done 'repair install', (not the repair console, btw) has never caused me to reactivate yet. The only time I had to reactivate was when I did a standing upgrade, as per a MS tech support person who I called after seeing one bizarre event after another that I could not explain (turned out to be bad capacitors on a K7S5A, but how could they have known that, although I felt at the time like I may as well have called my sister). I have always done a repair install after that and never had an issue and have done it on other machines than my own. The trick to a successful repair install, by my understanding, is to put the new board or whatever in and go directly to the CMOS without booting Windows... then put in the Windows CD after doing your settings and making sure it is set to boot from CD before HD. If you let it boot to Windows first then you may have issues I'm told, but I really can't say from experience there as I never let it boot to the drive.
Do a google on Repair Install and see what you see... you're likely doing something wrong.
Of course, YMMV.
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