Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer

"All unique system information" can mean a lot. For me, it could mean like everything that I want to keep, and the reason for which I don't want to reinstall.

Thank you for your reply.

Can I somehow save my personalization and reload it after? I have removed system sounds, changed themes, folder views, power profiles, etc, etc.

What about desktop files? stickies?

I recently built a cheap HTPC out of some old parts I had lying around and decided that I didn't wanna waste money on an ssd so I went with a Raid Stripe set instead on a couple of 150GB laptop drives. It was working fine except for a bunch of bsods and errors that I traced to a bad motherboard. So, I got a new motherboard and preceded to do as suggested in your tutorial here not realizing that it might not work due to the raid set. I made a system image that I do have stored on a redundant drive, however, I was wondering if there was any way to recreate the raid set? If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.

Here are the PC Specs.

Intel Pentium D 950 3.4GHz LGA 775
Old Mobo - Intel D102GGC2
New Mobo - MSI G31M3-F 1333 MHz FSB (there is a 1600MHz FSB version as well)
2GB Crucial DDR2 667
GeForce GT 430
SoundBlaster LIVE! 24 bit
2TB SATA Storage Drive
80GB Backup Drive
2 150 GB SATA 2.5" drives with current Win7 x64 Ult. installation

I followed the tutorial exactly and swapped the board when it completed. After that I booted to the Win7 installation USB I made and went to the repair section. I tried to load the raid drivers from the unpacked Intel INF driver package but even after loading any drivers I could find it still couldn't find the current installation.

Another thing perhaps of note is that the bios only allows me to set the raid mode as IDE. I am not sure if this is significant or not. I also don't know how to access the raid setup on this board. It does not give me a prompt to enter it like the Intel board did. Any idea's?

Thanks for any help you can give!

James

Alright so I will have to re-install in order to keep the raid. Figures. lol

If I use the image to restore it to an individual drive will windows be able to repair itself and boot up with the new motherboard installed or will I need to re-swap the mobo back and essentially start the process over again? But this time minus the raid setup of course.

Yes it is a raided image. I guess I will just re-instal like you suggest and save myself some possible extra work. :)

Thanks.

Hi Kari /All

I have a question My friend has burnt out his Motherboard and he has a replacement

If I take his win 7 hard drive and put it in a docking station connected via USB which my win 7 can see his hard drive..

Can I open a command prompt on my computer (my comp see his hdd as (J:)..)

And I am in administrator mode ..Can I change to J: drive and type in %windir%\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep.exe and hit enter..

Will THIS... sysprep his hdd or will attempt to sysprep mine being c: drive

Is there Any other switches I should know about or will this harm my system

Any help much appreciated

Regards
MickeeJay