Yeah I thought that WOULD be the case but how stupid is that?
Imagine you are the I.T. worker in a company where 20 new machines have been
delivered and you have to put the image done on Friday night for each
machine on that machine and have them ready to use by Monday so are working
over the weekend. You cant. You have to install Vista fresh then every
single program and all the other stuff each machine needs. Instead of taking
maybe an hour per machine, it is at least 2 with no real guarantee that you
haven't missed something as opposed to restoring an image to the new machine
which DOES guarantee you don't miss anything.
To put it another way, Vista makes any company's imaging software -
including the backup program from MS - useless excepting in the case that
the machinery is exactly the same.
MS must be trying to drive people away from Windows. No sane I.T. Manager
would put up with that rubbish!
"Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23ZmAOvuoIHA.4112@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hi Grey,
>
> There is no "repair installation" option in Vista like with XP and
> previous versions. It has naught to do with SP1. If the replacement
> motherboard and processor are of similar build to the original, then there
> is a chance that the original installation will boot on it. Otherwise, you
> are left with creating a new installation. There is no requirement to
> format as part of this process unless you are low on disk space (you'll
> need 15-20GB available), so if you are stuck with that option then simply
> don't and retrieve data from the original installation afterwards.
>
> --
> 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
>
> "Grey" <grey@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OyzvATsoIHA.1240@xxxxxx Quote:
>> 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
>>>>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
>>>>
>>> >> >