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To: thecow who wrote (27207)	5/28/2002 1:21:50 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 110655

Well, I brought up Win98SE with the new motherboard. I had to end up booting in safe mode and deleting all the old entries in the Device Manager. I then used the Win98SE install disk to rescan the hardware and install the missing driver files. This is not the same as an actual reinstall of Windows. I then was able to boot it up and install the motherboard drivers from the vendor's disk. I was able to get Win98SE up on the new motherboard without a reinstall of the OS. I had to perform a clean reinstall of WinXP to accomplish the same thing. I think the trick was to delete old hardware entries in the Device Manager on a boot to safe mode. I did this with WinXP, but could not find any of the old hardware driver entries that I knew must be there. I later went back into the Device Manager of WinXP and found a setting to show all hidden entries. I suspect this is why I could not locate the old motherboard driver entries to delete them. So I may have wasted all that time and effort reinstalling WinXP. It figures! :-) I am still looking for a backup and restore utility that handles CD-R/RW and can make a CD bootable that automatically invokes the restore program also found on the backup CD. This software will need to support CD spanning, the backup of opened system files, and a creation of a system disk image from a running system. A good file selection user interface is important, like that of Nero or the Iomega Backup utility. Also there needs to be good support for different CD drives for optimal performing backups and restore. And it would be very helpful if compression is supported. Anyone have any ideas? I heard about "NTI Backup Now!". I will look into this utility. Bob Graham