upgrading to new motherboard

From: tooly (rdh11_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:11:27 -0400

sheese, thought I'd find this question pretty regular here, but can't find
any threads on it anywhere. Search of knowledge base didn't turn up what
I'm needing either. Hard to believe.

I'm upgrading to a new motherboard (and cpu) and want to know what to expect
when I 'transfer' the hard disk over containing winXP. Will it not identify
the mobo as 'wrong'...and any new or added peripherals, like an added 80gig
second harddisk as problematic?

This is an 'upgrade' version of XP, not standalone. What I'd really like to
do is transfer the OS over to the new 80 gig hard drive, keeping the old 40
gig as the backup...but knowing XP and all it's hardware validation mess,
probably not worth the problems I'd encounter (?).

So, any techies out there who might step me through what to do on this?

This has to be a common question...right? Why not in MS knowledge base I
wonder?

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