Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer

You are right, you can not sysprep an in-place upgraded Seven.

Tonyyy said:

Hey Kari, I know this post is pretty old, but it seems people still post and reply. I've got a general quick question. A couple days ago I received my Intel Motherboard and Core i7, upgrading from a Manufactured AMD Motherboard. Yesterday, I swapped out the old AMD Motherboard in replace with the new Intel Motherboard. It wouldn't boot up, it said invalid system disk, replace the disk and press any keys. I went into the bios and changed some settings and got it to the point where it asked me to just "Run windows normally" or use the "Start-up Repair Wizard". When I ran windows normally it basically blue screened and when I use the Start-Up Repair Wizard it wouldn't go anywhere at all. It just stood at the screen. Although, before I did this, I did make a boot up disk, but I'm still wondering if that would work to fully boot up my computer with no complications. In the end, I basically put the old motherboard back in and system restore to a past date, and everything went back to normal. My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium is an OEM version because I bought this computer from Best-Buy and eventually upgraded everything slowly, everything went well. I'm only having problems with the new motherboard and cpu. Will method one work? I'm questioning myself because yes, it is an OEM version of Windows 7, but I don't have the money at the moment to purchase a clean Window 7 CD. Any ideas?

What is the bsod error? Is harddisk now attached to old motherboard ...if so I know some tricks

Tonyyy said:

I'm not too sure, it bsod and instantly crashes. Don't have enough time to glance at it, and yes at the moment my hard drive is currently attached to my old AMD Motherboard.

Goto device manager:
update the SATA driver to "standard AHCI 1.0 serial ATA controller"
Also IDE drivers to standard.
Don't reboot now!!

Deinstall other unwant stuff as well. On board graphics card driver, on board wifi, on boar network card, cpu driver etc.

Als uninstall unwant software for example spcial graphics card software.

Now shutdown and attach disk to new motherboard. try to boot
Are both motherboard BIOS's set to AHCI. See SATA mode somewhere in bios.

Hi Kevin.

Basically sysprep works the same way on Vista and Seven so why not? Have never tried on Vista, though, so I can not promise you anything.

If you make a backup or create a system image first, there's nothing stopping you to try. Worst case scenario would be to restore the backup or image :)

Kari

Thanks for the tip, Lord KiRon and welcome to the forums.

Kari