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by cuban_titanic

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I'm replacing old pii 200 mhz for barebones. What I'm doing is taking the HDD from the old with w2k and putting it into the new barebone with a athlon 700. But I'm getting a blue screen. As soon as I reinstall w2k everything is ok. Is any way to reinstall w2k keeping all the softwares and setting from the previous installation. I tried to use a repare disk from the old pc but it does work (the hardware is different and I'm coming back to the same point).

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by tamj123

maybe you don't have to reinstall w2k, you should try use F8 key and get to SaveMode and remove all the hardware deivice and let w2k detected itself.

by cuban_titanic

When I used the safe mode I'm getting a blue screen saying that may be I have a corruption in the hdd (that is false) or the controler is corropted or I have been attacked by a virus and recomending me to uninstall any new hard drive. Or use the chkdsk command to check my hdd for corruption.

by lordinfidel

The answer to your basic question:

"Is any way to reinstall w2k keeping all the softwares and setting from the previous installation"

Is no. Once you reinstall an OS (be it 95/98/nt/2k) you must reinstall all of your programs. This is due tothe fact the registry is overwritten with a new one.

As a basic rule, putting an hdd with a OS installed on it from another hardware subsystem onto a new hardware subsytem is a crap shoot at best.

But if you have to do it, my suggestions are to do this properly:

Put the Hdd with the original w2k os back into the original system it came from. Boot back into the os like it was before. And it should be stable.

From this point, go to the device manager and begin removing essential drivers: video, sound, scsi adapters, modem, nic, tape devices, cdr's, dvd's etc.
***When you received the BSOD, it should tell you in a cryptic way what driver was casuing the crash.... You so very much want to remove that one.

Then shut down, put the hhd into the new system. From there the os should start detecting the new hardware without getting conflicting messages.

Then once you can boot into the os without stop errors, start putting the devices back in that you want. Do it one at a time.

Also check the new systems HAL, make sure everything is 2k compliant. 2k follows the same premise as NT, it has to work or else the OS will choke.

good luck

by lordinfidel

I was reading your comment above.

At what point do you get the BSOD?

Is it when it is booting into POST? (before the beep)

Is it when it is booting into text mode? (Before the white w2k window with blue status bar)

Or is it during GUI mode when the blue status bar begins to go?

What devices do you have attached to this?

Does your Bios have a built in Virus Scan? If so, disable it.

Write down the exact stop message, word for word. Write down any drivers that it refers to.You can usually limit it to just the top part before the memory dump.

Keep the initial devices minimal. I would first start out with just the Video card and that's it. Then add the rest once the OS is stable on that hardware platform.

HDD- size, format type (ntfs, fat32), was it upgraded from a previous OS? Or was it formatted fresh and then clean install?

by lordinfidel

For Paul....

I never said remove HDD drivers.

But I guess I should of been more clear.. Do not remove any MB resources.

I did say that this is a crap shoot at BEST!

I have done this a couple of times before with mixed results. But the one thing I have seen with 2k is that it's plug and pray is far superior then that of past os's.

Plus at this point there is not much he can lose for trying. It's either it will work, or he will have to do a fresh install. Just hopefully he backs up his data first.

Obviously, if it was you or I and it was our own system we would opt for the fresh install.

Don't autmomatically say it's bad advice. It can be done, but like I said before, it IS a crap shoot.

by mckaytech

Windows2000, like NT4, is very unforgiving of changes in hardware. In this case, I think it is probably your motherboard chipset/hard drive controller that is giving the problem and I think you're getting some bad advice on workarounds.

If you remove all the chipset drivers, you're not going to be able to read the hard drive at all, so the concept of Windows2000 auto-detecting the new hardware isn't going to work because it's not going to load in the first place. That process works fine for "optional" drivers like video, modem, etc. but not for chipset or HDD drivers.

The only workaround I know is to do a fresh install of Windows2000 on the new hardware (obviously you would have to have another hard drive or be willing to wipe out the current one) and then do a restore from tape or CD-RW using a process that Microsoft describes in article Q130928 on their TechNet site.

But in the end, you are much better off just doing a fresh install of the OS and the applications and saving only the data from the old computer. Otherwise, a year from now, you'll STILL be tracking down obscure bugs and problems.

paul

by cuban_titanic

I reinstalled w2k and then restored a backup but I had to reinstall all the software. For example, when I tried to run Word I got an error message saying that word was not installed.
One more thing. The backup I had was from winnt folder and My Documents and Setting folder, I did not backup the programs files folder.

by j003

yes, you will need reinstall word and any other software you have.since you only backup the data files. J.S

by cuban_titanic

No, The only program or software that did not work was Office (the error says that it was not installed on this computer). The rest is working perfectly.

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