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| Thread ID: 136167 | 2014-01-28 19:02:00 | Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 - what to know? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 1366308 | 2014-01-29 19:49:00 | I already did WT in #27 | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1366309 | 2014-01-29 20:12:00 | Sysprep was never run, Always said that. I've also said that if sysprep is run theres no problems ( usually unless something went wrong in the process) The remark was made "W7 is agnostic, it doesn't matter if the PCs are different or not." Which reads as you can take a working W7 on one PC, and change it to another and it will boot and install the appropriate drivers. ( without sysprepping it) Sometimes it does sometimes it wont. The W7 here doesn't. Finally did get it going though, ran a program that's designed to remove drivers etc for existing installs and cloned to another drive, W7 then booted and then installed new drivers. The program is a earlier Paragon similar to make-windows-7-bootable-after-motherboard-swap.html (www.sevenforums.com) bullet point 3 in the article is what happened: "You can't SYSPREP because your motherboard died." Remove old original drivers that caused the booting problems and its solved. :) |
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| 1366310 | 2014-01-29 21:01:00 | technet.microsoft.com Efficient deployment of a Windows OS to many different machines usually involves using an image. Until very recently that image was a sector-based image and organizations usually had one for each type of client hardware they own. Today we have file-based images in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM). This format offers a number of advantages over sector-based images, such as being hardware agnostic within processor architecture, e.g. you will need separate images for x86 and x64 processors. WIMs are usually smaller than their sector-based image equivalent and easier to maintain and patch. You don’t need hundreds of WIMs to support your client hardware base, and they allow for more flexible deployment options. Along with this new image format comes a slew of new tools and documentation to help create and maintain them. The main tool is the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7. I called it a tool; in fact it’s a suite of tools and documentation to help with image creation and maintenance. |
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| 1366311 | 2014-01-29 21:15:00 | Where's that darn popcorn emoticon... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1366312 | 2014-01-29 22:47:00 | Where's that darn popcorn emoticon...Went looking for it last night. Happy birthday is sbout as close as it gets | plod (107) | ||
| 1366313 | 2014-01-29 22:56:00 | :D A sysprepped WIM image to install is slightly different to a OS thats already installed and up and running on a HDD. If Its a sysprepped wim image or new image (WIM) no problems at all, as it hasn't been through the processes of installing drivers for the hardware concerned UNLESS specific drivers have been injected into the WIM image for specific hardware when its created. Next thing the suggestion will be made that drivers dont cause crash problems :p A NON sysprepped OS can refuse to boot on different hardware, or are all the posts on the various forums all around the world Wrong -- Dont think so.:illogical Keywords highlighted. PS: just got back from that job this morning, ( he had called me last week) got the the guys PC here now, His old PC which was failing had Windows 7 home Pre , he tried to simply change the drive over to a PC he brought from Trademe, with No OS installed -- Surprise his original W7 Simply crashed on startup. It gets to the point of the Windows Icon appearing then shuts down, into an endless reboot :rolleyes: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1366314 | 2014-01-29 23:51:00 | On that guys drive that wont boot -- Funny thing is sitting on the desktop is the Windows 8 Upgrade ISO and licence he had downloaded & paid for :) |
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| 1366315 | 2014-01-30 01:32:00 | I dont even know what you are trying to say now WT.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1366316 | 2014-01-30 01:42:00 | I dont even know what you are trying to say now WT.... Fair enough comment :) After calling him back he then told me his plan was to change the original HDD with W7 over to the newly acquired PC from Trademe, when I fixed it so it would boot, he was going save all his data, then install W8. ( don't ya love it when people don't give all info) ;) So basically the fact that his original W7 wont boot on the different hardware is a non event now, I've simply saved (cloned) his drive lifted off the ISO of W8 and installing that, then putting back the data Programs. Only "down" side is the W7 was X86, so the W8 upgrade is X86 not X64. :2cents: Might try that Paragon program on the linked site and see if it does actually allow the hardware change since W7 is throwing its toys out and not auto installing the different drivers - According to that forum it works, only one way to find out I guess. |
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