Hoping someone can help as this is driving me mad. I'll have to try hard to explain why I have this scenario to avoid helpful intended replies that aren't what I need. If that makes sense!
I have/had an XP machine in my garage which controls various machines (laser cutter/3d Printer/cnc machine etc), and unfortunately it's one machine that didn't have backups unlike my other ones.
Last week the motherboard died (mini ITX Atom dual core board - VIA Epia I think).
Now a friend has kindly donated a Lenovo M72E thinkcentre (a tiny, mini itx core i3 machine) which has windows 7. So I wanted to move the SSD from the dead machine to this new one. The reasons being that because it wasn't backed up, I have tons of specific machine settings and so on, which have taken a long time to sort them all out, and if I just reinstall all those programs it'll take forever to sort out. If I can move the SSD they were all on into a new 'home' though, it'll save me tons of hassle.
Ok, I know it's often an issue to migrate an OS disc, but these days not as often. I had an issue with the hard disc controller causing it to boot loop when I put the XP SSD into the new machine, but fixed that via using Hiren's bood disc.
So the new hardware boots fine now with the old XP SSD that has all my software and settings etc for my garage machines (the whole reason I didn't just do a fresh install).
The problem is that it boots but the drivers are not installed for the new hardware on the old SSD.
Most importantly, it seems the USB ports won't work by default so XP boots fine in the new machine but I have no inputs for it
When it boots, it recognises lots of hardware/devices, and comes up with the window for reinstalling drivers, but I can't tell it to go ahead and install them.
I have all the XP drivers for the Lenovo hardware on a USB stick but this is useless when the USB ports don't work.
I can't remote desktop onto it, or install teamviewer etc to take control from another machine because the ethernet driver also of course are not installed for the new hardware home that the disc is now in.
Now what I CAN do is put this XP SSD into a caddy and plug it into any number of machines as a USB caddy drive, including the Lenovo machine on which I've installed a healthy copy of XP on its own native drive. But I cannot get USB to work on the SSD version of XP as it doesn't have any drivers for this machine.
This might be a very easy thing to get past or a really awkward thing, but if someone can help explain how I can ID and 'preinstall' (for want of a better phrase) the USB port drivers so the SSD version of XP will have working mouse & keyboard I'd be incredibly grateful.
I appreciate the thought behind comments like "just sack it off and install from scratch on the SSD and reprogram your machine settings" - that's not what I'm after, and aside from anything else, it'd deny me a potential chance to learn a new trick.
So if you can help me figure how to manually get the necessary USB driver files in place on the SSD then I'm all ears and very thankful.
Cheers!
I have/had an XP machine in my garage which controls various machines (laser cutter/3d Printer/cnc machine etc), and unfortunately it's one machine that didn't have backups unlike my other ones.
Last week the motherboard died (mini ITX Atom dual core board - VIA Epia I think).
Now a friend has kindly donated a Lenovo M72E thinkcentre (a tiny, mini itx core i3 machine) which has windows 7. So I wanted to move the SSD from the dead machine to this new one. The reasons being that because it wasn't backed up, I have tons of specific machine settings and so on, which have taken a long time to sort them all out, and if I just reinstall all those programs it'll take forever to sort out. If I can move the SSD they were all on into a new 'home' though, it'll save me tons of hassle.
Ok, I know it's often an issue to migrate an OS disc, but these days not as often. I had an issue with the hard disc controller causing it to boot loop when I put the XP SSD into the new machine, but fixed that via using Hiren's bood disc.
So the new hardware boots fine now with the old XP SSD that has all my software and settings etc for my garage machines (the whole reason I didn't just do a fresh install).
The problem is that it boots but the drivers are not installed for the new hardware on the old SSD.
Most importantly, it seems the USB ports won't work by default so XP boots fine in the new machine but I have no inputs for it
When it boots, it recognises lots of hardware/devices, and comes up with the window for reinstalling drivers, but I can't tell it to go ahead and install them.
I have all the XP drivers for the Lenovo hardware on a USB stick but this is useless when the USB ports don't work.
I can't remote desktop onto it, or install teamviewer etc to take control from another machine because the ethernet driver also of course are not installed for the new hardware home that the disc is now in.
Now what I CAN do is put this XP SSD into a caddy and plug it into any number of machines as a USB caddy drive, including the Lenovo machine on which I've installed a healthy copy of XP on its own native drive. But I cannot get USB to work on the SSD version of XP as it doesn't have any drivers for this machine.
This might be a very easy thing to get past or a really awkward thing, but if someone can help explain how I can ID and 'preinstall' (for want of a better phrase) the USB port drivers so the SSD version of XP will have working mouse & keyboard I'd be incredibly grateful.
I appreciate the thought behind comments like "just sack it off and install from scratch on the SSD and reprogram your machine settings" - that's not what I'm after, and aside from anything else, it'd deny me a potential chance to learn a new trick.
So if you can help me figure how to manually get the necessary USB driver files in place on the SSD then I'm all ears and very thankful.
Cheers!
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