Re: replacing motherboard questions

Still no go;
Hes seeking to move an installed o/s to a different PC
The o/s will not boot becaus hw has changed & he doesnt have the correct o/s
cd's to do a repair installation.
And thats ignoring the issue of OEM o/s thats probably bios locked to
origonal hw

"Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Disregard if I misunderstand what the OP wishes to accomplish.
I interpreted him to want to use the 200 gig drive in the old computer in
his new Intel computer.
To do this I would do the following steps.
1. Remove the 200gb HD from old computer and install as external on the
Intel (new) computer
2. Create an image of the HD on the new computer to the 200GB HD.
3. Install the 200 GB HD in the new computer.
If he wants to maintain the old computer simply make an image of the
drive and swap the HDs.
"peter" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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Why not?
"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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that wont work

"Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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.

--
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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