Upgrade to new machine

[Johannes Kantelberg]

I would be grateful for advice on the following:

I built a PC in 2001 for my own use and installed XP Pro OEM on it. Have since
installed SP2 plus all the subsequent patches.

Im now building a completely new machine with a new modern style motherboard,
video card, Core 2 Duo CPU etc.

I know that I cant just port my old hard disk with the old XP on it to the new
machine because of the OEM licensing rules. So my plan is to buy a new copy of
XP Pro OEM, put my old hard disk in the new machine and do a Repair Install from
the new OEM CD. Is it correct to assume that during such an install my old XP
will simply be wiped from the HD while all my applications will be kept intact
and I wil be able to reactivate the new system successfully?

I really dont want to re-install all my applications from scratch.

Many thanks,

Johannes van Vuren,

Cambridge, UK.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I would be grateful for advice on the following:

I built a PC in 2001 for my own use and installed XP Pro OEM on it.
Have since installed SP2 plus all the subsequent patches.

Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just
fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to
see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the
newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple
times instead of once (they would see it only once if you correctly
crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets you poorer help
than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please do so
by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple
newsgroups?" at http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html

 

[Johannes Kantelberg]

Thanks for reminding me Ken. I only xposted when I didnt get a response from the
other group. I thought the two groups I posted to were very related. No? You are
right about thread fragmentation. Its counter productive.

Johannes.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks for reminding me Ken. I only xposted when I didnt get a
response from the other group.

You're welcome. No, the point I was making is that you did *not* crosspost.
You multiposted. Crossposting is fine. Multiposting is bad.

I thought the two groups I posted to
were very related. No? You are right about thread fragmentation. Its
counter productive.

Most of us read most of the XP groups, so posting in more than one doesn't
even help get you a wider or different audience.

Actually the group name, microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,
confuses most people. It was never meant to be for general Windows XP help
and support, but for help with the Windows XP Help_and_Support *feature*.
But because its name is so universally misunderstood, it's become just a
clone of microsoft.public.windowsxp.general. There's no particular reason to
choose one over the other for a question, and we'd be better off if there
were just one.

As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft overdid it and created too many Windows
XP groups, many of which come close to duplicating each other. It's
fortunately much better with Windows Vista, where there are fewer groups.