If the hardware is supported by Win ME, you should be able to put in the new drive 
with the already repaired install that you did on the old system.  Then when you 
start up, if there are driver issues, hopefully you can update drivers then.  However, 
it may be prudent to first try to install WIn ME clean on the new drive, in the new 
system just to see if there will be issues.  That may give you an idea of whether 
bringing in the old updated system will work.  Bottom line is that, if the repaired 
system transfers into the new machine and starts up, it should discover the new hardware 
and update if it has the drivers, or you have to wait until it's done and add them 
manually if it doesn't ask for new drivers.  That would allow you to avoid doing 
another repair install once in the new machine..  Outside of that, sounds like you 
have a pretty good handle on what needs to be done.  Good Luck!!  :-)







On Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 9:54 am, david wrote:

>Thanks again CK, Your advice is very helpful.

>

>Given the prices of HD's, I will take your advice and clone to a new drive. 

>

>Here's how I plan to proceed, changing only one thing at a time:

>1) Find best h/w that supports WinMe. Plenty of legacy h/w is available and dropping 

>below 2Ghz is no big deal for me.

>2) Purchase full retail WinMe and do repair install on old system. I think it's 
best 

>to do conversion from the OEM OS on existing system. Existing backup will protect 

>me here.

>3) Do clean install of WinMe on new system to verify compatibility. Change h/w and/or 

>drivers as required.

>4) Wipe drive in new system and clone old drive onto new drive.

>5) Holding breath, do repair install of WinMe on new system

>6) Create new partition and install XP in dual-boot configuration.

>

>Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
 

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