Re: VMS is younger than Windows

In article <12ja49p9ueeeg2b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Syltrem" <syltremzulu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Bill Gunshannon" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4pke74Fjc48sU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <12j9rm2vt04b8c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Syltrem" <syltremzulu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Is there any hope that I can install Vista on my PC, and later upgrade
the
PC hardware (change motherboard, CPU, etc) and boot the new hardware
directly?
With present and past versions of Weendoze, one had to reinstall
everything,
from Weendoze itself to all applications, reconfigure them....

Bullcrap.

I want to change my peecee but don't have time to reinstall/reconfigure
eveything.
I tried a software that supposedly helps in this process (Acronis) but it
miserably failed at boot time...

Build a master image of Windows for the labs and then install it on
all the machines in the lab. At no time have I had a lab where all
the machines were the same. Usually, I have 3-4 totally different
hardware configurations on lab machines. And it still works with
just one image and, at most, a little massaging of drivers.


M$ says in KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q249694:
Microsoft *does not* support restoring a system state backup from one
computer to a second computer of a different make, model, or hardware
configuration.

And past experience shows going to a different HW does not work.
If you take a Ghost copy of a PC and load that onto a different hardware, it
won't boot.
There are exceptions but if you go from a Pentium III single to Pentium IV
with 2 CPUs, it certainly won't work.

Well, I am certainly glad you didn't tell me this before I started doing
it because then it propbably wouldn't have worked.

bill

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