Hi,

At the moment I have an Asus P3V4X mobo box 703mhz CPU 512 RAM with XP
Pro on it.

I have just bought an Asus P4B533-E mobo box 1.8 mhz 512 DDR and I want
to move my drives over to that.

What is the best way?
Just physically move them over and set them up as Master,slave as they
are in the present one?

The last thing I need is to have to reinstall all my programs on a new HD!

Thanks,

Rock

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:16:02 +1000, rock <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>At the moment I have an Asus P3V4X mobo box 703mhz CPU 512 RAM with XP
>Pro on it.
>
>I have just bought an Asus P4B533-E mobo box 1.8 mhz 512 DDR and I want
>to move my drives over to that.
>
>What is the best way?
>Just physically move them over and set them up as Master,slave as they
>are in the present one?
>
>The last thing I need is to have to reinstall all my programs on a new HD!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rock
>

If you have a retail XP CD and not simply a restore CD from an OEM
then this will be very easy.

Simply move the drives
Set your BIOS to boot from the CD
Start System, boot from the XP CD, and choose to do a repair install
(in place upgrade) of XP

This will re-install XP and will update it to the settings and drivers
for the new MOBO and CPU etc. All of your install programs etc will
be intact afterward as well as any personilization of XP itself.
You will have to re-activate after the install.

To find out how to do a repair install go here.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q315341