move a Windows XP installation to new hardware It was given the following situation: 
A Windows XP installation is to another (I avoid now times the word "new") to move while retaining all the computer data, installed programs, drivers, etc. The target system is different in respect of chipset, video card, CPU, etc. Minimum significantly from the original system. A hard disk system for data, etc. in the target system was the same size as in the present system.
following procedure was chosen: I first created an image of system partition under Knoppix partimage with broke the image creation. Cause may have been erroneous data structures or hardware failure on the data partition of the original disk or problems with the NTFS file system on the second disk. Also, the MBR and partition table has been secured with sfdisk
dd and
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The target computer is running as Knoppix, restore MBR and partition table with dd and sfdisk, where, however, occurred already the first difficulties: First, complained sfdisk that the extended partition does not start on a sector boundary and DOS and Linux interpret this different then would. By any form of partitioning, I got off this error message, so it is ignored, which until now had no effect. On the other hand, the entries for the logical partitions within the extended partition was not backed up and had to be recreated by hand.
order (failed in the image making process), only the data partition to copy to the target, the target hard disk was installed in the main computer, the original system started, formats the data partition the new disk and copy the contents of file by file from the old disk. Since, however, found the folder "Documents and Settings" on the data partition, not all files are copied: The user-specific Part NTUSER.DAT registry and under \\ Local Settings \\ Application Data \\ Microsoft \\ Windows
the files were subsequently copied to Knoppix. This affected both the data of the logged on Windows user and the existing services for the users LocalService and NetworkService . Now was the first attempt to boot the new system, which unfortunately had only a blinking cursor in text mode result. Probably not fit anything with the MBR or boot sector. So was launched the Windows repair console from the XP CD and
fixmbr and fixboot c
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repaired MBR and boot sector. Unfortunately
started the system still does not, but during the Windows startup process, a reboot triggered. So I decided to "repair installation" from the XP CD, which worked surprisingly well. was unfortunately the installation CD to SP1 version, while the system up to date before update status (SP3) was. Thus, some not working properly: A number of services such as DCOM could not start what has been logged in the event log. There's no network and Internet is available on the computer, I got myself on a different computer with ctupdate6
all updates onto a USB stick and then moved to the target system's current SP3 and patch level, which corrected the error substantially. Now a driver for the chipset, on-board VGA, on-board audio and LAN recorded that I had downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer's website. Unfortunately there has not been offered the appropriate LAN driver, so I could google the device manager after the read-vendor and device ID, and finally found something directly with LAN chip manufacturers.
was now even the rest of the hardware (wireless PCI card, video card, CD burner, ...) from the old to the new computer and transferred to verify their functioning, and the external devices (printers, scanners, ...). Interestingly, the on-board graphics chip in the presence of an AGP graphics card is automatically disabled. All in all Unfortunately, this action cost me almost 3 days of my holiday - but it is less than set up the computer completely.
PS: Does anyone have a old Athlon XP and 256MB of DDR RAM? * Ggg * Links: MBR and partition table backup and restore
c't Offline Update "ctupdate6"
Knoppix
- CD / DVD running Linux live system
- partimage - free image tool for partition (included in Knoppix)
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following procedure was chosen: 
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