Hello techsperts.
appologies in advance for my n00bness.
here's my situation:
I've got a new motherboard and processor, years apart from my old one.
I have a disk image of my old hard drive - for simplicity's sake lets just say that my old HDD is inaccessible.
the disk image seems to be fine and xp boots no problem. upon loading xp finds a whole bunch of new hardware and tries to install drivers and tells me i need to activate windows, etc. so i'm using the mobo manufacturers driver installation programs and it's all going well...
here's my question:
if i have all my new hardware installed and running, and everything seems as it should, do i still have to run a windows repair?
I ask because I know the text book procedure is to boot from the set up disk, select 'install xp' and then when prompted hit 'R' for repair. i'd rather not repair because last time i did, i found that i lost my custom right click functions (including antivirus options) and who knows what else i lost..
appologies in advance for my n00bness.
here's my situation:
I've got a new motherboard and processor, years apart from my old one.
I have a disk image of my old hard drive - for simplicity's sake lets just say that my old HDD is inaccessible.
the disk image seems to be fine and xp boots no problem. upon loading xp finds a whole bunch of new hardware and tries to install drivers and tells me i need to activate windows, etc. so i'm using the mobo manufacturers driver installation programs and it's all going well...
here's my question:
if i have all my new hardware installed and running, and everything seems as it should, do i still have to run a windows repair?
I ask because I know the text book procedure is to boot from the set up disk, select 'install xp' and then when prompted hit 'R' for repair. i'd rather not repair because last time i did, i found that i lost my custom right click functions (including antivirus options) and who knows what else i lost..