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Konstantinos Tsoukalas

Konstantinos is the founder and administrator of Wintips.org. Since 1995 he works and provides IT support as a computer and network expert to individuals and large companies. He is specialized in solving problems related to Windows or other Microsoft products (Windows Server, Office, Microsoft 365, etc.).

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  1. André Keher
    May 9, 2022 @ 6:19 pm

    Thank you very much! Your article saved my Windows SERVER 2008 R2 after motherboard die and a backup restore problem. You are the man!

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  2. brandon
    January 10, 2022 @ 11:54 am

    Wow! This can be one particular of the most useful blogs We’ve ever arrived across on this subject. Basically Excellent. Thank you for the useful article.

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  3. javad490
    September 22, 2021 @ 10:36 pm

    hi, my os is windows 8.1 x 64 on my registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci i can not find "msahci" but have "MsBridge" do need i change MsBridge to 0 ? StroeAhci is 0
    thanks

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    • lakonst
      September 23, 2021 @ 3:17 pm

      No, don't change MsBridge or any other key (other than those listed in the post) and try to boot your computer from the hard disk.

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  4. Instagram takipçi satın al
    August 24, 2021 @ 7:28 pm

    Nice bro thank you.

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  5. Manoherlal teli
    June 28, 2021 @ 12:04 pm

    Best

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  6. skyline3010
    May 1, 2021 @ 1:59 am

    Hi,
    I am trying to boot my old ssd with Windows 7 (important stuff inside) with my laptop with Windows 10.
    Does the above way works?

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    • lakonst
      May 1, 2021 @ 8:46 am

      Yes, it will work

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  7. Alan Foos
    June 11, 2020 @ 3:45 am

    Wow! Will this still work on new ASUS ROG MB? The tech says Win 7 will not work on a new MB, but I've got years of software installed that I rely on heavily and can't easily replace. Just why do these registry entries need replacing and does the OS still work on the old MB? I read also that the DSIM command dism /image:C:\ /add-driver /driver:X:\ /recurse should work as well, but I'll have a lot of time and money invested before discovering that porting Win 7 to the new MB will work – or NOT! THANKS for any advice you can give.

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  8. Sepp
    September 27, 2019 @ 2:09 pm

    Hi! I have 0 number value default, so the the windows restarts with the new mobo… What can i do? Other solution?

    Thanks

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    • lakonst
      September 27, 2019 @ 4:01 pm

      If the new mobo supports UEFI, disable the 'UEFI Support" and the 'Secure Boot' in BIOS settings. Additionally, make sure (from the motherboard manufacturer) that the motherboard supports the installed Operating System.

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      • Sepp
        September 28, 2019 @ 5:43 am

        The uefi and secure boots are disabled, the motherboard support windows 7, the values are 0, but the system restarts at boot… :(

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        • lakonst
          September 28, 2019 @ 9:21 am

          Try the instructions at method-1 on this post, and if this doesn't resolve the problem follow the instructions at the rest methods

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  9. cr3sher
    September 10, 2019 @ 2:28 pm

    My old laptop broke and it had a disk in it with Win8 and a lot of data.
    Will this method work if I plug that disk into another laptop? That other laptop is running on Win7 but I would rather use my old disk with Win8.
    What should I do?

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    • lakonst
      September 10, 2019 @ 5:08 pm

      Yes, it should work, after applying the steps on this method.

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    • Dave
      October 26, 2019 @ 8:03 pm

      Thank you so much for this guide! I want you to have my babies

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  10. Grande
    August 26, 2019 @ 5:33 pm

    Hello,

    I have windows 7 ultimate x64 sp1,was running perfectly,i wanted to upgrade from z270x gaming 7 with i7 7700k to a z390 master aorus i9 9900k my keyboard and mouse are not working,i tried to boot in safe mode – same result,is there a way to inject the drivers somehow ?

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    • lakonst
      August 27, 2019 @ 8:58 am

      The Z390 AORUS MASTER doesn't have drivers for Windows 7. You have to upgrade to Windows 10.

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  11. Benjamin
    August 25, 2019 @ 12:22 am

    Hello, I have windows 8.1 and would like to switch from an HP motherboard with an AMD processor to a ASUS Gaming board with an Intel Core I5 processor will these methods work for me?

    Thanks

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    • lakonst
      August 26, 2019 @ 9:13 am

      @Benjamin: Yes

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      • Benjamin
        August 29, 2019 @ 12:22 am

        Thanks 🙏

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  12. Micah
    July 11, 2019 @ 6:28 pm

    Thank you so much! I upgraded my Ram, mobo and CPU in one go and like an idiot didn’t think to backup my hard drive. Saved me from having to do a fresh reinstall of windows 7!

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  13. Milan
    June 6, 2019 @ 11:07 pm

    Absolutely working on my Win 7 64bit with Scenario 1 after replace (upgrade) Mobo and CPU AMD. Thank you for this great and simple instructions.
    Save me two days of reinstalling everything.

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  14. Lucky
    January 24, 2019 @ 10:54 am

    Thank you very much, you saved my life..
    Many thanx to you..

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    • KirzeZ
      January 27, 2019 @ 12:47 pm

      I went to do that, but it was already like that(0), is it normal so that I can get the replace started?sorry 4 my English btw:)

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      • lakonst
        May 30, 2019 @ 11:12 am

        @KirzeZ: Yes. try it.

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  15. Givaschitt
    December 19, 2018 @ 12:24 am

    Awesome tutorial, followed scenario 1 and everything is working perfectly!!!!

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    • Ernesto
      January 31, 2019 @ 2:05 pm

      I plan to do the same. What is your new mobo? Is it really enough to set Start to zero? How did you get win7 drivers for nvme and usb3 for the new mobo?

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  16. nick lai
    November 14, 2018 @ 11:45 pm

    hello,
    followed scenario 1, i changed mobo, graphic card, psu and case , i get a bsod after win7 logo and then it restarts.. everything seems ok in the bios.
    what could i do?
    thanks in advance

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    • lakonst
      November 15, 2018 @ 10:19 am

      @nick lai: What is the error code of the BSOD? In BIOS set the SATA mode to IDE. If it is already "IDE" then change to AHCI. Also disable the Secure Boot.

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      • nick lai
        November 15, 2018 @ 1:38 pm

        that's too fast, it reboots in a quarter of second, i can only recognize a long string made of zeros under 3 or 4 lines of words.
        secure boot is disabled and IDE should be correct, tried AHCI too but nothing.
        other ideas?
        thanks a lot for the fast reply

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        • lakonst
          November 15, 2018 @ 3:35 pm

          Have you tried to boot in safe mode? Also have you tried to boot with the old graphic card, to remove its drivers and then to put the new card?

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          • nick lai
            November 15, 2018 @ 6:24 pm

            tried with the old graphic card, tried safe mode but both bring me to the same bsod.
            i filmed it and catched the frame showing the error, it is :
            *** STOP: 0X0000007B (0XFFFFF880009A97E8, 0XFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0X0000000000000000, 0X0000000000000000)

            thanks again

          • lakonst
            November 16, 2018 @ 1:39 pm

          • nick lai
            November 16, 2018 @ 7:47 pm

            SOLVED:
            here is how, in case someone else need it:
            i downloaded all the motherboard's drivers and put them (unzipped) on a USB stick; then i used the Windows repair disk to access the command prompt and connected the usb stick; then i wrote and entered this command :
            dism /image:C:\ /add-driver /driver:X:\ /recurse

            (change C if you have Windows installed on another drive / change X with the letter of the Usb drive containing the drivers)

            at the end of the process , restarting, the PC will finally boot correctly

            thanks for your time!
            cheers

          • lakonst
            November 17, 2018 @ 9:47 am

            Thanks for the solution.

  17. Jul974
    October 2, 2018 @ 12:24 pm

    And don't forget to call re-validate your Microsoft Windows licence.
    By internet. If it does not work, call them and explain the hardware changed.

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  18. Jul974
    October 1, 2018 @ 4:58 pm

    Brilliant tutorial. Works like a charm.
    Dead motherboard of an old P5 changed to à H110M without reinstalling.

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  19. Reehal Singh
    September 12, 2018 @ 9:14 pm

    thanks sir you are great

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  20. chris.au
    August 27, 2018 @ 10:11 am

    You just saved me hours of reinstallation, thankyou so much. I used scenario 2 and it worked perfectly.

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  21. Wouter Gous
    June 29, 2018 @ 8:13 pm

    This method does not work for Win 10 as those two options (mxahci and priide) does not exist in the registry. Any further advice?

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    • lakonst
      June 30, 2018 @ 9:04 am

      @Wouter Gous: Have you tried to boot Win 10 on the new MB without modifying anything?

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    • Tangelo
      February 8, 2019 @ 4:21 am

      Win10 uses storahci instead of mxachi.

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  22. TGabor
    June 7, 2018 @ 7:15 pm

    Thank you the tip! It worked 50%-t for me. Me and my daughter used different PC-s. I use a Dell Optiplex 760, my daughter Lenovo 57e. Because she went studying and only occasonally uses her PC, I decided to change the two HDD because her HDD is larger then my one. We use Windows 7 Prof. and similar programs. After saving (and deleting from the HDD-s) I changed the two disks after making your tips (the registry changes). My PC (the Dell) booted with the Lenovo's HDD (with the Windows 7), but the Lenovo does not boot with the Dell HDD (saying: STOP: 0x0000007B with blue screen). I have to install everything on the Lenovo?
    Excuse for the poor English.

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  23. Tiziano
    June 5, 2018 @ 12:40 pm

    I am not sure if it is active yet but It would be life saver if you help with my scenario.
    My Dell laptop's motherboard got fried just after 1 year and 2 days after warranty expiry so I had to buy a new motherboard which I luckily found in New condition. It is dell latitude e5570 and the original CPU was a core I7 quad core with AMD GPU but this new one got core I7 dual core and intel GPU. My SSD from old computer contains windows 10 pro and I don't have any DVD for it nor optical drive in my laptop. shall i be able to use that SSD with windows on my new motherboard? Your response will be really appreciated.

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    • lakonst
      June 5, 2018 @ 12:58 pm

      @Tizianο: Normally, Windows 10 will not have any problem to start with the new motherboard.

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  24. DEEPAK JADHAV
    May 27, 2018 @ 5:00 am

    Thanks man !

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  25. Leonardo
    April 24, 2018 @ 3:24 pm

    Thanks man!!!

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  26. Bob
    March 15, 2018 @ 7:33 pm

    I did all that is stated above, but when i start my pc from cold start says no hard drive is present or in the bios.Then if i hit CTRL ALT DELETE the pac restarts fine and see the hard drive.
    Then the next morning same issue.
    Any idea,
    Thanks

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    • lakonst
      March 15, 2018 @ 8:12 pm

      @Βοβ: Check the cables.

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      • Bob
        March 15, 2018 @ 9:37 pm

        I checked the cable itself looks fine, checked setting in bios they are set to IDE.Since i am using the older ide cable to connect it to the board. Was wondering if it could be registry key i changed to 0 should i set them back to 1 now since the windows has installed the motherboard drivers. Also as i stated when i start it from being shut off , bios doesnt see the hard drive on the first boot , but when i hit ctrl alt delete to restart , loads fine. Or can it be a faulty ide cable. Stumped!

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        • lakonst
          March 16, 2018 @ 2:05 pm

          @Bob. Can you change the cables (the Power & the Data cable)? It is definitely a cable or a hard disk problem.

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  27. Jay
    February 22, 2018 @ 1:54 am

    Thanks very much. This info saved me. I thought I would need to reinstall Windows.

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  28. Juppie
    February 7, 2018 @ 10:33 pm

    Holy shit sir you saved me after upgrading from 8GB RAM and an asus P5G41CM-LX to intel mainboard01 with i7 870 and 12 GB RAM.
    I have a single HDD with 2 partitions (OS and storage) and was in an infinite bootloop after the upgrade. Why is this not in top results in google ?!

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  29. Anónimo
    February 2, 2018 @ 6:40 pm

    This's awesome! Thanks a lot! This solutions works for MS Windows 7 Service Pack1 32bits.

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  30. Sheldon
    December 20, 2017 @ 3:19 am

    Please help me if watch a you tube video changed start up to 0 and something els that was on 3 to 0 now my harddrive is not showing on new pc or old motherboard its just gone but can hear it runing

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    • lakonst
      December 20, 2017 @ 10:14 am

      @Sheldon: Did you "see" the hard disk in BIOS? If yes…then change UEFI to Legacy in BIOS settiings and also disable "Secure boot". Then boot from a Windows installation media and follow the instructions in this article to modify the registry as mentioned.

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  31. Rob Jacobson
    August 8, 2017 @ 2:46 am

    Thank you for your quick response. My apologies for not being clear. I was getting BSOD upon boot, did the scenario 2 mods offline, then got the above message. Appreciate your help if you have any suggestions. Thanks again.

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  32. Rob Jacobson
    August 6, 2017 @ 10:57 pm

    Great instructions but I got the message…

    File:\Boot\BCD
    Status: 0xc000000f
    Info: an error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data

    Also, noticed when going in to my drive a ContolSet001 and ControlSet002 which looked different than the screen shots. Not sure if that mattered

    Thank you! Rob

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    • lakonst
      August 7, 2017 @ 9:23 am

      @Rob Jacobson: Follow the instructions to modify the Registry Offline (scenario 2).

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  33. Isaac.
    June 18, 2017 @ 3:04 am

    This is really too complicated. I replaced two mother boards with Windows 10 Pro. Nothing like this was done. Just turned on the computer, and Windows 10 took care of everything. With the first computer which was done six months ago, it took thirty minutes, today it took maybe twenty minutes.

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    • lakonst
      June 18, 2017 @ 8:41 am

      @Isaac: The article was written for the previous Windows versions…Windows 7, Vista, etc. Windows 10 has many drivers included and these steps are not needed anymore.

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  34. Rob
    March 19, 2017 @ 4:41 am

    I've had this website open on my phone for months lol. I finally got around to installing a new gigabyte Z170X-gaming 7 motherboard and i7 6700K CPU, and used this method.

    I have two RAID 1 setups (one for OS and one for Storage), and performed the first method above. Upon restarting my computer, windows wouldn't boot. I tried windows repair, but it took forever and was not making any progress (i left it for about a half hour).

    I got into the BIOS and reconfigured my RAID 1 setups (from AHCI, or whatever single drive mode it was in), and windows started and ran with no issues. I used the driver CD that came with the motherboard to get all drivers back (ethernet, etc.).

    So far so good, thanks for this writeup! It saved me a lot of time.

    Just be aware that you have to reconfigure RAID if you had it before, otherwise windows will not boot up.

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  35. Steve
    February 3, 2017 @ 8:58 pm

    This was the only technique I found that worked to use with Windows 7 when I replaced my motherboard. Thanks a bunch. Wasted 2 days trying other ways and reinstalled the new equipment twice to get it to run.

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  36. john felakowski
    December 12, 2016 @ 9:44 pm

    hi, tried this to upgrade a dell mobo to asus. didn't work, but realized that in your instructions you state sata,
    my boot drive is ssd. have cloned onto an old sata drive and will try again.
    cheers.

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  37. BrentG
    November 19, 2016 @ 8:26 pm

    This worked perfect for me!
    I'm a windows 7 user who upgraded from an amd mother board and cpu to an intel i7 6700k and a gigabyte z170xp-sli mother board. I kept getting a BSOD loop after booting. THIS IS A WORKING SOLUTION. Many thanks!

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  38. Carl
    November 18, 2016 @ 3:09 am

    Does this work on Windows 10 and going from AMD to Intel?

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    • lakonst
      November 18, 2016 @ 10:56 am

      @Carl: I haven't tried it in Windows 10, but I think that it works.

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  39. Alex
    October 25, 2016 @ 9:45 pm

    Dose this work for vista as well?

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    • lakonst
      October 26, 2016 @ 8:29 am

      @Alex: I suppose yes.

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  40. Rahul Maurya
    October 13, 2016 @ 8:33 pm

    Thanks man.. Really helpful.????????

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  41. Othman
    September 28, 2016 @ 11:24 am

    Brilliant! This is the easiest way!!
    Thanks

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  42. jason Strat
    August 25, 2016 @ 4:41 pm

    This has been an ongoing issue for me since the release of Win 7.
    Thank you for the post. greatly appreciated, it worked like a charm!

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  43. Chris
    June 2, 2016 @ 9:08 pm

    Well the work going from a amd mobo to a Intel mobo?

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    • lakonst
      June 3, 2016 @ 8:49 am

      @Chris: I think yes. Give it a try and tell us your experience.

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  44. It guru
    April 23, 2016 @ 3:26 pm

    Worked

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  45. Fabio Costa
    February 27, 2016 @ 1:14 am

    Awesome! Thank you so much!!

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  46. trefmanic
    November 30, 2015 @ 8:04 am

    This is the guide I was looking for. Saves a lot of hassle when old motherboard is toasted. Thank you!

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