Hi,
This is a messy one.
Story goes like this.
i have a Dell precision 380, P4 3.4Ghz HT CPU, it's reaching it's end of life with mobo isues etc. Vista ultimate Sp2
I got a dell precision T3500, Xenon quad 3.2 Ghz.
Plan was to swap the HDD old PC to T3500 and boot in safe mode then load drivers. i know with the difference in machines it was a long shot but i have been lucky in the past.
this time, no good no matter what i tried. so did sysprep on old machine, took a few goes to get that to happen then swapped.
At first it lasted longer on bootup making me think it was configuring the new PC , then blue screen.
back to ld PC, also now damaged, blue screen, so I can't remember exactly but I think i tried loading windows setup and then stooping it in hope this would get it to load when swapped again to t3500.
no good, just blue screen.
Now i can't get out of the setup dialog in the old pc and just quits , failed setup installation , previous attempt incomplete( not exact words but that's the overall situation)
I've tried hirens, bcdedit, there's no restore points as i suspect a vrus killed them.
i then tried a registry restore in hirens but from 2014.
that really stuffed it as i forgot it was XP then not the current vista.
managed to reverse last changes and back to previos failed setup message.
i did do a complete backup of the registry before all this unfolded but it won't load those in hirens.
I definitely out of my league now and stuck.
if there's a way to extract the reg backup to the old system I think that may work, don't know how.
i have alot of programs loaded on the old machine and have no chance of finding discs,keys etc which is why I'm trying so hard.
At some point i guess i'll have to quit , save my files at least and blow away the rest.
i was going to try a claen install over windows but i expect that will just blow away the programs as well but keep my files?? Would like input on that one.
Any suggestions?
This is a messy one.
Story goes like this.
i have a Dell precision 380, P4 3.4Ghz HT CPU, it's reaching it's end of life with mobo isues etc. Vista ultimate Sp2
I got a dell precision T3500, Xenon quad 3.2 Ghz.
Plan was to swap the HDD old PC to T3500 and boot in safe mode then load drivers. i know with the difference in machines it was a long shot but i have been lucky in the past.
this time, no good no matter what i tried. so did sysprep on old machine, took a few goes to get that to happen then swapped.
At first it lasted longer on bootup making me think it was configuring the new PC , then blue screen.
back to ld PC, also now damaged, blue screen, so I can't remember exactly but I think i tried loading windows setup and then stooping it in hope this would get it to load when swapped again to t3500.
no good, just blue screen.
Now i can't get out of the setup dialog in the old pc and just quits , failed setup installation , previous attempt incomplete( not exact words but that's the overall situation)
I've tried hirens, bcdedit, there's no restore points as i suspect a vrus killed them.
i then tried a registry restore in hirens but from 2014.
that really stuffed it as i forgot it was XP then not the current vista.
managed to reverse last changes and back to previos failed setup message.
i did do a complete backup of the registry before all this unfolded but it won't load those in hirens.
I definitely out of my league now and stuck.
if there's a way to extract the reg backup to the old system I think that may work, don't know how.
i have alot of programs loaded on the old machine and have no chance of finding discs,keys etc which is why I'm trying so hard.
At some point i guess i'll have to quit , save my files at least and blow away the rest.
i was going to try a claen install over windows but i expect that will just blow away the programs as well but keep my files?? Would like input on that one.
Any suggestions?
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