XP Enum Trick

[RayH]

Apparently, the ENUM trick for XP is to go into the Device Manager and Delete the Plug and Play ENUM and just shut down. Put the hard drive in the new system and boot up.

[wolfie]

hi
ok found device manager, then do you go to "system devices" and the delete "plug & play software device enumerator"?
thanks

wolfie

[homer15]

does that work for 2000?

[glc]

I just successfully moved a Win2000 hard drive into a totally different system (from a K6-2/550 on a Via board to a P4-2.4 on an Intel i850 board, different video card, different modem, different NIC, different CD drive) with NO issues by doing absolutely nothing except plugging it in. I was honestly expecting a BSOD on bootup but it didn't happen.

[RayH]

I'm gald somebody got it to work. I don't use either OS myself. But I found this on another board and thought it would be useful.

[glc]

I apologize - I just got lucky. Here is exactly what I did. The old system had a Via ATA66 onboard controller, the new system has a SCSI system with an Adaptec 19160. What I actually did was this - I popped the IDE drive onto the IDE controller on the new system and used Drive Copy to clone it to the SCSI drive - which then booted with no problems.

However, I tried the same thing on another system yesterday - the old system had a Promise Ultra 66 controller and the new one has a standard Ultra 100 Intel controller (i850 board) and I tried using the old hard drive as is - and it did not work. Inaccessible_Boot_Device bluescreen. Researching the issue told me that there is no easy way to move a drive with Win2000. I wound up slaving the drive into another machine and dumping files onto the server, then reformatting and doing a fresh install.

The issue is with IDE drivers. You can pre-prepare the drive before you pull it with registry edits.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q271965