Francisco H Tapia
my.lists at verizon.net
Thu Apr 8 10:59:10 CDT 2004
Jon, Most people run the sysprep utility before the run into such things... check out this page from microsoft on how to use it. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/deploying/introduction.asp Jon Tydda said the following on 4/8/2004 8:38 AM: >Hi all > >A colleague who really should know better has just taken delivery of a new >pc for his department. So he swapped all the drives over from his pc to the >new one, and tried to start it, and nothing happened. Well not quite nothing >- he got to a black screen with a flashing white cursor. I suggested that he >boot off the Win2k cd and run the repair utility, which he did. > >So he rebooted again, and it's still going to the black screen and staying >there. > >He's got completely different hardware now - new motherboard, processor, >ram, video card etc. The only things that are the same are the hard drive, >cd-rw and dvd-rom. > >I'm a bit stuck now, so I told him to run the repair utility again, see if >that helps, but if anyone else has any suggestions, they'd be much >appreciated... > > -- -Francisco