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by paul.davis
It can work, or it can crash. Get a good backup, and then try doing the process incrementally, changing only one piece of hardware at a time. Reapply SP6a each time you get the new hardware working.
And you'll have to reapply the security patches as well. Are you sure the game is worth the candle?
Way I'd do this, for a complete upgrade, would be to first remove any drivers that affected the piece of hardware I was removing. Down the machine, take it out, boot up, then down it and put in the new kit. Reboot, get that piece working, then move on to the next piece of hardware.
New motherboards are the worst, pull all the extra drivers, like USB and so forth when you change one of those, and have the new drivers for the MB ona floppy or the hard drive.
If you mean going from one totally different compaq box to a dell server, with nothing intermediate, I'd try a restore to that new machine, and pray. It will probably boot, eventually, and you might get to install SP6a over again - which would help cure its ills. But I'd not bet a penny on the long term stability of an OS so abused.
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