Preparing old drive for new system.

[MuRDoC]

:t Hello, I am in the process of building a new system but with the Wife at my heals, I had to order a little bit at a time. Anyway I have everything new except the HD and Operating System, which will be coming along in a couple of months or so but for now I will use my old HD so I can boot up my new rig.

What I need to know is what do I need to do to prepare my old drive for the new 2.0P4 on a Asus P4T-E, 256mb rambus, Geforce Ti4400, Sound Blaster Gamer, running Win98/2nd Ed. I know that I will have to set the display adapter to VGA and maybe disable the sound before I turn off the old CPU, is there anything else I need to do? http://216.40.201.38/otn/wink/thumb.gif

[KTS]

If you wish to use the old hard drive with an existing install of windows I suggest doing the fallowing : Open regedit, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum
Remove all entries.

[rangeral]

What is 2.0? If your going with a new motherboard you should be doing a fresh install meaning wipe the drive completely and install the OS especially when your making a jump from or for example a 500 cpu to a 1.4 cpu the technology is very different and even if you got it to work you would end up with problems later on.

A fresh install starts out with a standard vga adapter to begin with so when you mentioned that it didn't sound right as to what your gameplan is.

Give us your all your new system specs and what OS you'll be using, old and new parts.

Think you also mean your building a new tower, cpu sits on your motherboard inside the tower or case.

[MuRDoC]

How about this?

Anyway I don't want to lose what I have on my old HD, can I do a fresh start without wiping it clean of my stuff. Can what KTS said be done without any problems?

Old system: P3 450
Intel 440BX2
256mb PC133
Win98 second ed
Diamond Ultra TNT2 Viper Video Card
Diamond Mx300 sound card
WD 15gb 7200 Caviar HD
CD burner
Mid Tower
300 Watt Power

New system: P4 2.0
Asuse 4T-E
256mb PC800 ECC
VisionTek Xtacy Ti4400
Sound Blaster Gamer
Same CD burner
Same HD and Operating system for now
Full Tower
450 Watt Power

Will get later 80gb HD with Win XP

[KTS]

Although I have not tried it myself... I have heard in other forums that the enum trick works quite well.... although have heard cases where it did not..... it's just a fast way of removing devices from the device manager.... should work as a good temporary solution

[rrockingb]

I would do a backup of all my files I did not want to loose, then if you want to try the enum trick and it fails you can still restore your files after a clean install.

You are making quite a change in hardware and as been stated here a clean install would be best in my opinion.

[DocEvi1]

you have a cd burner, why not use to back up all your work.

Alternatively, why not put the HD as a slave into another computer wiping all files you don't want.

Stefan

[sevenbeansalad]

What are you going to do with your old system?
Christopher

[MuRDoC]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sevenbeansalad
What are you going to do with your old system?
Christopher [/QUOTE

Keep it for the kids system and keep them off my new one. http://216.40.201.38/otn/realhappy/biggthumpup.gif

[MuRDoC]

Thanks Doc, I was thinking about doing that. Have not burned text files before just Mp3's files http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/ups/sooty/oops.gif but I am sure it is easy.

I have two HD in my old system but need to keep one in it for the kids to use. It is 10gb and I will wipe it for them when I get the other up and running.

[sevenbeansalad]

Thats smart.

lol

[rangeral]

Your making too big a jump for the enumerator thing, sounds dangerous to me. The other suggestions mentioned would be a better approach or borrow a hard drive from somebody copy your old drive to it and see if it works before using the original, every hdd manuf. has a drive copy utility for free so that won't be a problem.

Or after you've installed new parts stay in dos and run setup of 98 again and it should offer to repair system making the necessary changes at your own risk. If your concerned about programs you no longer have the cd to then try what I mentioned above before committing to original drive. Otherwise once the registry is changed those apps won't work.

[aferrari]

reciently i update my cpu and mobo (PIII 533 + Soyo6VBA -->
Athlon K7 1.3 + DFI AK-75) and then, i boot the computer
and both os (Win2000 and Win98SE) recognize the new hardware
fine and then the computer work fine.
but, yes i know, it' doesn't correct
the right ting is to do a clean install.
soon i did the clean install (better thing)

[davewuk]

I did P3 to P4 (Soyo VIA to Supermicro INTEL) without OS re-install. If possible GHOST the drive first or at least backup as others have mentioned.
I removed all drivers for graphics, sound and VIA etc plus associated software. Then checked the Windows\Inf folder for other files and cleaned those up especially important re VIA to Intel. After which I checked registry under the aforementioned articles and cleaned up there. Finally, hit device manager and zapped the PCI stuff shutdown do the hardware bit and reboot - worked for me after my initial apprehension! :D

[rangeral]

Then I gotta ask if you would feel so brave on a customers machine, not me.:) You'd be surprised how many small business' don't save data for years, I keep telling this one guy to save and he doesn't do it, wait til that fateful day comes and I can't do anything about it.:D

[MuRDoC]

Thanks you all have been helpful. I will back-up my data on the CD and get a clean restart on my drive.

Again I appreciate the help. http://www.uniquehardware.co.uk/server-smilies/otn/wink/thumb.gif