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Using sysprep to upgrade system

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by rbrown

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I've tried using using sysprep on win 2000 when upgrading a mother board & cpu but maintaining the same hard drive, or when moving a hard drive from an older system to one with a different chip set and componets. I still continue to get the blue "inaccessable boot device" screen. Is there some type of procedure that I should do to windows 2000 or the sysprep application for the system to run properly? Or is there a procedure that's better than sysprep you're changing motherboards on a system that has a hard drive that runs win 2000?

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by timwalsh

The issue is one of IDE Controller drivers.

Sysprep is the long way around the problem, and can result in the same type of error.

Check out the following MS KB articles:

"STOP 0x0000007B" Error After Moving Windows 2000 System Disk to Another System - Q271965

Follow the instructions under the "More Information" heading. Although this method is not supported by Microsoft, I have used it several times in the past with good results.

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware - Q249694

This is the Microsoft-supported solution.

Hope this helps.

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