Re: replacing motherboard questions

If you dont have the o/s system cd's you cannot either replace the mobo or
move the hd to a new PC
In order to do either you would need to run a repair installation of win
It also maybe the case that winxp you have maybe locked to the hardware of
the HP

"augie" <augie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have computer with a mother board from an HP Vectra VL400 with a 1000
meghertz Intel Celeron and a 200G harddrive. With an authentic XP home
operating system. No disks, I bought it used. But I have the needed home
edition codes. Slow but I like XP. I just bought a used Gateway E-2000
with a
Pentium 4 and a very small, very noisy hard drive, and all the disks for
Window 2000. Much faster than my old one. I would like to move my hard
drive
with XP Home into the Gateway E-2000. How do I do that? I tried just
moving
the harddrive into the Gateway and that did not work? any suggestions??
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augie


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