Thanks guys for the feedback. I'm not as worried about the Windows drivers and such -- they're a pain, but a known problem. A consultant of ours was wondering if the Oracle stack might need to be reinstalled. I couldn't see why, but I think I'm going to find out! Thanks again! Rich > Can you set up the new server with its own internal drive to support the OS > then plug in the HDD from the source machine as a slave? Should be able to > mount the database that way...might have to recreate the control file to > make sure the files names are all correct. The OS on the slave would be > just ignored. > [snip] > > I haven't done this since XP, but I do recall something about having to > create hardware profiles so that the OS instance could boot with correct > drivers. There's (probably) more changing than the processor - chipsets, > drives, etc). I don't know if such a thing is possible or necessary in > Windows 7, but it'd be where I would want to investigate. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l