That depends on the type of hardware change that you make.

If you open up the registry with regedt32 under Windows NT you will find
that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE does not have an associated hive.
That's because the key is rebuilt each time you boot so that NT can adapt
itself to changes in the hardware.

NTDetect.com which runs at boot time, gathers the information which makes up
HARDWARE.

If however you make a drastic change such as going from the Intel Platform
to the Alpha platform then you need to replace the HAL which is a different
story altogether.
The recovery process then becomes significantly different.

Nathan

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Prather, Wanda [SMTP:PrathW1 AT CENTRAL.SSD.JHUAPL DOT EDU]
        Sent:   Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:13 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: restore WIN95

        I believe it will work just fine on a Windows 95 system if all you
are
        upgrading is the processor.
        (It definitely will NOT work for Windows NT, because Windows NT
keeps
        hardware information in the registry.)

        But make sure you think through what you are doing.  Consider
whether the
        machines are REALLY the same except the processor.  If the new
Pentium III
        has, for instance, a different network card, you could be missing
the
        appropriate drivers.




        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: Leo Humar [SMTP:lhumar AT BIGPOND.NET DOT AU]
        > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:40 AM
        > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        > Subject:      restore WIN95
        >
        > G'day ADSMers,
        >
        > I have seen the recent Win95 restore messages and can anybody tell
me if
        > the restore procedures will
        > work with different hardware configurations ?
        >
        > I will need to upgrade one of the clients from a Pentium-133 to a
Pentium
        > III box.
        >
        > Thanks you in advance
        >
        > Leo Humar
        > LCS Pty Ltd
        > lhumar AT bigpond.net DOT au
        >
        > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a
large
        > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.