It would be nice if that were true. I just went through a dying motherboard
replacement on my own machine and tried to put the same Vista Ultimate 64
installation with the new motherboard/CPU which were the only things
changed. It wont do it. You cannot repair install, so far as I can find,
since SP1 came out.
Please prove me wrong. I really would prefer to be wrong in this case!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: reinstall Vista on a new Motherboard ???
Quote:
> Hi,
>
> Provided you have sufficient free space remaining on the drive, you don't
> have to format. Setup will just move the old installation to a windows.old
> folder where you can later retrieve your data. Programs will still need to
> be reinstalled.
>
> You may find that if the hardware is closely related, that you will not
> need any reinstall. I would just try it first, before bothering to
> reinstall.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "pedmag2" <pedmag2@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:30A7B13F-BE06-4D9B-85D0-E16E18D68192@xxxxxx Quote:
>>I have Vista Ultima but my Motherboard was burn from electric problem I
>> going to install a new Motherboard, my hard drive and the other cards are
>> OK
>> they was check and tested , Is any way that I can do this and don't have
>> to
>> reformat the Hard Drive ?????? The new Motherboard is diferent then the
>> old
>> one, because I can no found the same MotherBoard, The CPU is OK and I can
>> use
>> for the new Motherboard
>>
>> Please any Help Thanks
>>
>