Re: Moving hard drive to new computer

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Providing you have a non OEM version of win, as an OEM version may be locked
to the origonal hardware.
Assuming win is not locked you would have to run a repair installation of
win, and install mobo chipset and other hw drivers


<limeylew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1168031419.837161.197600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently bought a Pent. 4 computer with no hard drive and my plan is
to take the hard drive from my older machine and install it in this
newer machine.

Is this reasonably feasible to do and can I do this without upsetting
Mr Gates?

Your help will be appreciated.

Lewis.

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