Re: replacing motherboard questions

bacause all of the drivers will still be for the other system...........and there is no way to run a repair installation to correct that.
peter
"Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Y2OMi.5753$6p6.718@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Why not?
"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message news:ODBDi8VBIHA.3716@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
that wont work

"Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3mxMi.3175$4V6.1072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You can accomplish what you want by making backup images on external drives for both systems.
Then, take the large drive install it in your Pentium system and copy the backup drive onto it.
"augie" <augie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:31E7D5E3-68F7-4F1B-8E2C-E8C70EAB28E7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well Thanks, I am going with the bigger hard drive and will just run the
Win2000 on it (still much faster with the Pentuim 4) then since I can not get
IE7, I will use Mozilla for tabbed browsing lol.
I did learn new things today so thanks all.

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augie


"RobertVA" wrote:

augie wrote:
> 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??

The Windows XP user license for the HP is very likely an OEM license
that does not authorize you to use the Operating System (OS) on another
computer. Many name brand computers come with OSs that are customized to
work with a narrow range of computer model numbers and will refuse to
work with motherboard models they are not configured for anyway. Some
OEM licenses are supplied on separate media (like the ones you describe
for the Gateway), but some have software in a hidden hard drive
partition for restoring the computer to the same software and data
configuration it was in when shipped or delivered to the end user. The
non-transferable OEM license limitations probably apply to the Windows
2000 for the Gateway as well.

Use of the larger hard drive in the Gateway would require the
installation of the Windows 2000 OS on the larger hard drive or the
installation of Windows XP under a different end user license than the
one that came with the HP. If HP was utilizing removable media as the
original owners avenue to recover a damaged OS your Windows XP OS would
become unrecoverable.








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