Re: oem XP Pro question
From: Sammy Castagna (someone_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 01/20/05
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:54:08 -0500
Yes that is what I want to do. Basically buy a new main board a cpu a case
and memory and use my hard disk video card audio LAN ect. I was under the
impression after you changed the main board and cpu that copy of XP Pro was
no good. But it would sure be nice if I could just use my old hard disk and
if necessary buy a new copy of Win XP oem or regular and not have to install
all the stuff over again.
Sammy
"Venger" <venger@augustmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Sammy Castagna" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>I think I have a mother board going bad on an XP Pro machine. If I ordered
>>a bare bones pc without hard disks could I take my two out use what is
>>installed and just buy a new oem copy of Win XP Pro with the pc?
>
> The OEM license applies to various pieces of hardware - it's all very
> silly really, but such is the world. If I understand your post, you are
> trying to take your hard drives out of your old PC, and put them into a
> new PC, using the new PC's XP Pro OEM license.
>
> Well of course you could, just as you could add a second hard drive to
> that new PC, or replace a defective hard drive in that new PC, or simply
> upgrade the hard drive in that new PC.
>
> I am worried though that I didn't quite understand your question, it was
> somewhat awkwardly phrased...
>
> Venger
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