[Info-vax] Do you (or someone you work with) sysman on Windows?

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-05-12, Chris Scheers <chris at applied-synergy.com> wrote:

> Actually, you tend to get many different disk drivers installed. 
> However, once Windows enumerates the hardware, unused ones generally get 
> disabled.
>
> When migrating a Windows system disk to different hardware, it may be 
> necessary to reenable some of the more generic disk drivers before 
> booting on the new hardware.  This may require fiddling the registry.
>
> Another option may be to SYSPREP the disk first.  I would do this on a 
> copy.  I haven't tried this path yet (except in a VM), but I suspect 
> that it would work.

Here are some instructions for SYSPREP which worked for me with XP.

<http://www.answersthatwork.com/Download_Area/ATW_Library/WinXP_Professional/WinXP__3-Setup-How_to_SYSPREP_a_Windows_XP_PC_setup.pdf>

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