HD swapping

[kof2k]

Hi Everyone, i recently sold my old dell d410 to a coworker but i took my 100gb with XP Pro. I remember their is a way to swap my hard drive into other laptop that is ata. I remember i had to replace certain files in the windows or windows32 directory. After that the hard drive would boot up and all i would have to do is install drivers for the new laptop. If you guy now how to do this plz, any info toward this is very much appreciated

[Squall-Leonhart]

old system was Via = Repair install windows if you no longer have the system, or if you do, uninstall every via driver from device manager without a reboot, then shut down and swap the hardware.

Old system was nforce - uninstall the nforce drivers from add/remove programs and make the swap.

Old system was intel, - just make the swap, intel relies on standard msft drivers and just uses infs to name the various devices.

[kof2k]

90% of all the driver were intel.

[Squall-Leonhart]

just make the swap, you can remove the no longer present devices using the SHOW_NON_PRESENT_DEVICES trick.

open up a cmd prompt and cd to c:\windows\system32
b. type: set show_non_present_devices=1 (then press enter)
c. type: start devmgmt.msc (press enter -this will open up device manager)
d. In device manager, go to the view menu and choose "Show hidden devices"
e. remove the device (right click, uninstall)

i recommend refraining against removing devices from non plug and play, and sound and audio devices.