RE: Moving Hard Drive with XP to new mobo & processor

A complete reinstall,boot to xp cd,install xp,new copy,delete the partition,
create one,let xp format & install auto.

"Joel P." wrote:

I'm building a new system with an Intel Q6600 and a Gigabyte mobo. The old
system which is still working has an AMD 64 processor running XP Pro. Can I
just pull and re-install the old hard drive into the new system and it'll
boot? Or is a complete windows XP re-install in my future?
.

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