I was trying various combinations of hardrives/motherboards. The reason I was moving things around was that the motherboard on the one system fried, and I was just trying to put the harddrive in the other system with a different motherboard. Wouldn't even boot up, just hung and couldn't even get into safe mode. I tried a different harddrive that had a different copy of XP on it and it would at least boot, but it did say it needed to be re-activated due to the major hardware differences.

In the long run, it was just easier to re-do XP on the disk I needed to have anyways.

Thanks, Neil.

>Hi,
>You can just swap drives if the hardware is the same, but not if it isn't, the license is locked to the hardware.
>
>Anyway I always do a full reinstall on Workstations as it gets rid of all the stuffups on the old machine.
>
>>>Hi,
>>>You will have to use the Migration tool. Whether it works with dual boot I can't say, never tried it.
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>>>>>Hi folks. I have a test server set up with Win2003 and Win2000 on it (multi-boot). I have a faster server now, and would like to transfer the hard drives to the new server without having to reinstall and set up everyting again. A simple installation of the drives in the new server causes both Win2000 and Win2003 to not boot complaining about new hardware. Is there a tool such as ghost that will allow the complete hard drive to be transfered between the two servers?
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>>>>I don't think Ghost would be of any help. The problem stems from the hardware being suffciently different as to require different drivers for low level functionality to work.
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>>Is the migration tool only for the server versions? I just recently had to do this with an XP system on a hardrive and had to re-install to get it to boot up at all.