Re: Moving XP to new computer

See my reply to your other post, which you would have seen here if you
properly crossposted.

"Johannes Kantelberg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your feedback. OK, It was my memory failing me. (Got only 256MB
of it, alas...). I did in fact buy XP in 2001.

Im thinking of just moving the install to the new machine rather than
doing a fresh install. The latter will mean applying all the pacthes again
of which there must have been hundreds up to now. No?

My new machine will indeed take the old hard drive without problems. But
since the motherboard is new and from a different manufacturer it
problably have a different chipset which my present installtion of XP wont
recognise. No?

Johannes.


"DatabaseBen" <databaseben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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wow, you must have been
one of the real lucky ones
to have a fancy o.s. since 1996.

unfortunately, my time displacement
machine was in the shop at the time.

why would you assume that
you cannot install the old hd on
the new pc?


"Johannes Kantelberg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I bought a copy of WindowsXP Pro about 10 years ago and have been using
it successfully so far.

I have now built a brand new computer and wish to move XP to the new
machine. I assume I cannot just install my old hard drive in the new
machine. How does one go about moving XP to complete new hardware
without encountering licensing or other problems?

Many thanks,

Johannes van Vuren.

Cambridge UK.







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