Vista - Motherboard fried, new motherboard, oh oh disk driver issues, blue screen rebooty time!

So chaps and ladies, my motherboard went and died on me, it was out of
warranty and I now have a new motherboard. I have a dual boot XP and Vista
setup and both of them seem to be barfing quite nicely with the new
motherboard. I´ve solved the XP issue with a repair install, but the Vista
repair process does not appear to have the same procedure available, and
also it will not allow me to perform an "upgrade" over the old
install.....*grumbles*

So, is there anything I can do?

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Francis

Hi Francis,

Nope, nothing else you can do when the hardware change is that drastic.
Vista's installation method differs significantly from XP and previous Win
versions in that it lays down an image rather than overwrite files. The
latter bit is why you can do repair installations of XP and earlier. Because
of this change, the repair installation is no longer available and you'll
have to lay down a new image. If you have sufficient drive space, you should
be able to do this without formatting so that you can recover data from the
old installation, it will be housed in a windows.old file on the root of the
drive.

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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

"Francis Bacon" <francis__bacon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thankw for the prompt answer Rick. I really wish they had an F8 option that
did something along the lines of "default installation drivers" to get into
Windows with a forced hardware detection default type phase. I remember
loosing many hours with restoring an old Windows 2000 system back years ago
(in an emergency (of course)) that went from a single to a multiprocessor
setup and having to replace various files from the recovery console, but it
did work....

Not too worry, a clean installation is always a good thing, and then I fear
I will have my first contact with the License Activation people Oh
joy.... whinge whinge whinge

--
Francis

"Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
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Vista's "repair install" is called an upgrade-in-place. However, it only
works if the desktop at least loads. It is done by launching Setup from the
desktop, choosing Install Now, and doing an upgrade. If the desktop does
not load then you will need to reinstall.

To protect your Vista VSS files from deletion by booting into XP follow this
KB.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/926185

"Francis Bacon" <francis__bacon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:03:02 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
<c.barnhorst@xxxxxx> wrote:
So all of the best backup strategies in the world will probably be
useless if a mobo needs to be replaced and the same one can't be
found.

THAT sucks.

In article <etat44tcv7i5l45unnol83smk30ouok36t@xxxxxx>,
nonnymoose@xxxxxx says...Acronis True Image with universal restore will restore
to completely new hardware. You will have to reactivate.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:55:41 -0700, GeraldF <youare@xxxxxx>
wrote:
You buffoon. Can't you read?

VISTA WON'T DO REPAIR INSTALLATIONS if the system won't load, and it
won't load with a totally new motherboard in place.

Need help with understanding that?

i feel your pain francis, i was just upgrading my m/b from an intel based chipset to a nVidia based one and Vista won't load. my WinXP on the other hard drive that is slaved will tho. go figure. wish there was a way to install the chipset drivers while in WinXP to the Vista OS. someone should make a program for that, sure would make some money i bet. good luck with yours, i'll be joining you in the "fresh install" group.