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| 1399011 | 2015-04-20 22:33:00 | I've just bought a new mobo, ram and cpu, so now its rebuild time. I've been reading about sysprep which looks like it might save a lot of reinstallation. I haven't it used before, so I have questions: I'm currently multibooting Win7, Vista and Win 10 preview. I'm not worried about losing Win 10 if necessary, but will I be able to preserve the rest of the environment? Presumably I run sysprep on each OS, do the rebuild, then boot up and hope for the best. Obviously I do heaps of backups beforehand. Are there any gotchas I need to know about? I've read about a few things that stop sysprep working, and I don't think any of them apply, but if they do, what happens? Does it just refuse to start, or does it crap all over everything and brick the system? I've also see reference to this (www.sevenforums.com). Has anyone any experience of it? Does it work OK? The feedback on the page seems pretty positive. All help gratefully accepted. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1399012 | 2015-04-20 23:39:00 | I'm not sure why you would need to Sysprep in this case. Just plug in the drive and see if it boots. If the hardware is similar enough to your old stuff it probably will. You will need to install drivers all the same. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1399013 | 2015-04-20 23:49:00 | Windows 7 & Vista are not known for behaving nicely on different hardware is why sysprep is a good Idea. Windows 8 has surprised me with how easily it moved to other hardware though so 10 is probably ok as well.Why the multiboot and do you really need to keep Vista? I'm not one of those people who thinks it's terrible but it's near enough the same to windows 7 to make having both seem redundant to me.I've not used sysprep myself but I hear it works well. I always prefer to do a clean install on a new build myself though and if it was me I would just install 7 and abandon Vista and 10. Rebuilding is an opportunity to clean out all the accumulated crud and start fresh, especially if you can keep the old machine running until the build is finished. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1399014 | 2015-04-21 00:04:00 | Personally I haven't struck this, but if you say so. Be aware you will have to reactive all your installs if you run a sysprep. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1399015 | 2015-04-21 00:15:00 | Like Alex, I have had good experiences just booting up the old drive and letting Windows do its driver thing. That includes moving my wife's Vista to a different comp. Must admit I was a bit surprised but Vista proved a champ! Just get images of both your OS partitions beforehand 'just-in-case'! Good luck with whatever you choose to do. Let's know how you go. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1399016 | 2015-04-21 00:17:00 | Personally I haven't struck this, but if you say so. Be aware you will have to reactive all your installs if you run a sysprep. Come to think of it, with the change of hardware you will likely have to re activate even if you don't sysprep. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1399017 | 2015-04-21 00:39:00 | One of the "gotya's" is IE (from memory you have to remove the updated versions,) one that will can cause many problems is Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service, you have to disable it before running sysprep, sometimes after you sysprep you get to a point that on restarting it comes up with a error message "Windows could not complete the installation " while there are lots of so called "Fixes" theres a lot more failures, and even more causes for it happening, so you have to find what was the actual cause - it cant go forward and cant go back, so unless you boot from a CD that allows you to find the reg key, or program and disable it - Basically you're screwed :( Windows 8.1 was throwing up the same message on syspreped images I was doing the other day, finally found out the problem was some of the tiles on the start screen, so after starting again, doing all the updates, installed programs, altered what I wanted then running the appropriate commands to stop it failing, its all go, works every time now. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1399018 | 2015-04-21 00:50:00 | Dugi, you may be right about Vista. I'll have a look and see if there is anything there that I can't do without/transfer to Win7. It is all lost in the mists of time, but I suspect I kept it as a "just in case" if Win7 didn't work out OK. Wainui, I'm running IE 11. If I just uninstall it, will that make the issue go away? I'm reluctant to just do the rebuild and power up and hope, because if that doesn't work I'll be forced to reinstall everything whether I like it or not. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1399019 | 2015-04-21 01:23:00 | Wainui, I'm running IE 11. If I just uninstall it, will that make the issue go away? Pass :p theres many items that can cause sysprep to fail, lots of different programs, updates etc. What you would be safer with is in the following article www.sevenforums.com #1 is what you want, have a read of the rest as well. Basically it removes the drivers from a current install. BUT like anything along these lines nothing is 100% sure, so pays to make a backup first, just in case :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1399020 | 2015-04-21 01:35:00 | Pass :p theres many items that can cause sysprep to fail, lots of different programs, updates etc. What you would be safer with is in the following article www.sevenforums.com #1 is what you want, have a read of the rest as well. Basically it removes the drivers from a current install. BUT like anything along these lines nothing is 100% sure, so pays to make a backup first, just in case :)I'll certainly be doing the backups. I cited the link you give in my original post. I obviously didn't make it clear enough. Do you know from personal experience if it works as advertised? |
Tony (4941) | ||
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