Moving Windows 98 to New Machine without Reinstalling

[TC]

I need to move a hard drive from a machine that died to a new one. I don't want to reinstall windows 98 right away. My question is I vaguely remember some trick in 98 that would force it to redetect all of the hardware in the system. Seems like it was a system folder that you could delete, or maybe it was a registry entry. Anyway you could delete it and reboot, and windows would start finding all of the motherboard hardware all over like it had just been installed from scratch. It was an easy way to move windows if you upgraded your mobo. Not guaranteed fool proof, but a good remedy for the situation I'm in.

[JimmyG]

I don't know the trick, but you could go into the control panel and select the device manager. There you could delete all of the hardware drivers and then reboot.

[powerme]

Originally posted by JimmyG
I don't know the trick, but you could go into the control panel and select the device manager. There you could delete all of the hardware drivers and then reboot.

do that in SAFE MODE because it is safe

if you try to do that in a normal mode, your computer will freeze