Subj : Win98SE install?
To   : Christer Jacobsson
From : William Grinolds
Date : Fri Jul 07 2000 11:24 am

Christer Jacobsson wrote in a message to Jeff Guerdat:

 CJ>> But on another tack.... When I've installed NT4 anew and
 CJ>> brought it up to fixpack #6a level. I'm about to get a new
 CJ>> box here. Is there any way that I can "lift over" my NT4
 CJ>> installation onto the new box without doing a total
 CJ>> reinstall from scratch?

 JG> Yep but it's a bit kludgy.  Install yet another bare installation of NT
 JG> into, say, WINNT.NEW so you have access to the NTFS partitions and copy
 JG> the old over the new.  Fix up C:\Boot.ini to point to the right
 JG> files and
 JG> reboot.  Now that you're back into familiar territory, delete the
 JG> bare NT
 JG> (WINNT.NEW).  I'd reinstall SP6 if the stuff in Program Files may have
 JG> been overwritten, just to be safe.  If you install it on a
 JG> partition that
 JG> does not have an existing Program Files directory, just delete that one,
 JG> too.

I disagree... Try this:  With the hard drive and everything in the old box, 
remove the Network adapter (if there is one) from the Network properties; 
change the display adapter to Standard VGA; and go to the SCSI Adapters icon in 
Control Panel and remove the Adaptec driver and add the Tekram driver.  If it 
prompts you to reboot, tell it not to - all three must be changed in the same 
boot-up session for this to work.  Then shut down the system, move the hard 
drive over to the new system, and voila - everything should boot up to a 
working NT system.

If you need to boot it up again on the old system before the hard drive boots 
up NT past the blue screen on the new system, press the space bar at the 
appropriate time during bootup to access the Hardware Profile/Last Known Good 
Configuration screen, press L, then press Enter, and it should boot up NT on 
the old drivers.  If you do this, you'll have to re-replace the network, 
display, and SCSI adapter drivers if you want to try moving it back over to the 
new machine.

After it boots up, install the proper NIC drivers (if needed), display drivers, 
and sound card drivers (if needed), and you're good to go.

 CJ> Well, my problem here is that my new box won't have an Adaptec
 CJ> SCSI-adapter but a Tekram/SymBios adapter instead. So if I go as
 CJ> you adviced, I would first install a virgin NT4 on my new box in
 CJ> the directory WINNT.NEW. Then I would restore my old setup into the
 CJ> directory WINNT on the same partition. 

 CJ> Where do I go from there? The virgin installation would have the
 CJ> correct SCSI adapter and VGA video whilst the old installation
 CJ> would have the Adaptec adapter and MGA Millenium-II configured. OK,
 CJ> I could reset my old installation to VGA before saving it to tape,
 CJ> but the saved copy would still have the 'wrong' SCSI adapter
 CJ> configured. How do I go around this roadblock?

I don't think it would really work very well the way Jeff described.

Bill
Internet: wgrinolds@mail.com 
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