Introduction - Change Motherboard and save operating system
Microsoft support articles are effectively (almost completely) silent on the subject of adapting an installed operating system to a different motherboard. Because there is no official guidance from Microsoft, Windows users have developed a variety of methods on their own. With no standard procedure, users variously modify basic methods with alternate procedures. Following are the various methods reported to be used successfully by Windows users. All known alternate procedures for each basic method are included.
Moving XP to new MB or Computer
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP InstalledPosted by jshare at April 27, 2004 10:47 PM