Upgrading a hard drive with a Windows XP OEM install

[Guest]

i just purchased a PC with an OEM version of XP Home (a new experience - the
OEM aspect). It has a 40 Gb hd and I wish to install a 200 Gb hd. It
appears I'm stuck with the smaller drive unless I wish to use the larger
(higher performance) drive as a second disk only. By reading through the
newsgroup postings it appears this is not (unfortunately) a unique
experience. The postings indicate there is no upgrade/crash recovery option
other than purchasing a separate retail version of one's OS of choice. A
legitimate product key isn't much help without an installation cd - Microsoft
has accepted my product registration via the internet but I don't know that I
have any good options to implement the upgrade. I have XP Home/Recovery cd's
for an hp laptop I purchased - but I doubt the code will work even though
they're both OEM installs. I have other options but would appreciate some
input before I pursue any particular course of action.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

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[Michael Stevens]

i just purchased a PC with an OEM version of XP Home (a new
experience - the OEM aspect). It has a 40 Gb hd and I wish to
install a 200 Gb hd. It appears I'm stuck with the smaller drive
unless I wish to use the larger (higher performance) drive as a
second disk only. By reading through the newsgroup postings it
appears this is not (unfortunately) a unique experience. The
postings indicate there is no upgrade/crash recovery option other
than purchasing a separate retail version of one's OS of choice. A
legitimate product key isn't much help without an installation cd -
Microsoft has accepted my product registration via the internet but I
don't know that I have any good options to implement the upgrade. I
have XP Home/Recovery cd's for an hp laptop I purchased - but I doubt
the code will work even though they're both OEM installs. I have
other options but would appreciate some input before I pursue any
particular course of action.

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[Guest]

everyone buys the OS disks from the OEM manuf for about $20, Comaq, HP, IBM,
eMachine or Dell

 

[Ted Zieglar]

"everyone buys the OS disks from the OEM manuf for about $20, Comaq, HP,
IBM,
eMachine or Dell"

No kidding? Kindly post a URL for Dell so I can purchase their OEM Windows
XP for about $20.

 

[Martin]

"everyone buys the OS disks from the OEM manuf for about $20, Comaq, HP,
IBM,
eMachine or Dell"

No kidding? Kindly post a URL for Dell so I can purchase their OEM Windows
XP for about $20.

E-bay is your best bet

 

[Ted Zieglar]

You said "from the OEM manuf".

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E-bay is your best bet

 

[Bruce Chambers]

E-bay is your best bet

How about a *legitimate* source?

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| How about a *legitimate* source?
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| Bruce Chambers
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| You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
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| both at once. - RAH