Take a look at sysprep, if moving from an old shitbox to a new PC pay
particular attention to the HAL under device manager, may pay to change
it to the longwinded (forget the wording) ACPI option from uniprocessor
or whatever it's on prior to doing the sysprep, just make sure you get a
good image of the drive before doing so.


Double Bonus wrote:
> i built a new (faster comp) for my Wife and she everything thats on her hard
> drive the same. How can I use the old hard drive in the new comp.
>
> I put the drive in the new computer and started it up,I reconized all the
> drives,video card,I could go to the Bios and set everything,then when Windows
> tries to start I
> get this same stuff:" I get the message: We
> apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A
> recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
>
> I've clicked on every option given and the same thing happens every time.
> The windows startup begins, a blue screen flashes--too quickly to be able to
> read the text, then the screen with the boot up options appears; immediately
> afterwards it goes back to the original screen with the "apology" quoted
> above.
> I saw a posting in this forum touching this subject saying that if windows
> doesn't start, press F8 and start in safe mode with command prompt. I tried
> that too but it just lead me to the "apology" again. When from the original
> screen I enter "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" it lists a bunch of commands,
> but gives me no prompt. It then goes into the sequence of events already
> described above. "
> If I take the hard drive and put it back in the old computer it boots up
> fine,no problems.
> If i have to do a clean Install to the new computer,can I migrate all the
> software installed,bookmarks in IE,etc to the new computer with having to
> reinstall everything seperatly.
>
>