Best way to take XP HD to new computer?

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Hi,

I have XP Pro and as the CPU is just 577 and things are sooo sloow in
this box which was great for 98se, I want to upgrade to a 1.8CPU box.

As I need everything on this boot drive, what is the best way for me to
go about taking it to the new system?

Thanks

Rock
 
Rock said:
Hi,

I have XP Pro and as the CPU is just 577 and things are sooo sloow in
this box which was great for 98se, I want to upgrade to a 1.8CPU box.

As I need everything on this boot drive, what is the best way for me
to go about taking it to the new system?

Thanks

Rock
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Best bet: new HD in new machine (they're cheap today), do a CLEAN install
of XP on that machine, get it updated etc to your liking, THEN install the
old HD into the new machine on a secondary IDE connector (as a non-boot
disk). Copy what you need off of the old drive, and then either take it
out (save as a backup?) or reformat and use it as a data drive (or better
yet, save your Ghost images on it).

If you try to just add it into the new machine as the boot disk it's
likely that it will not work because of motherboard differences - you'll
need to do a repair install (an "in-place upgrade"). That'll then require
you to do all the WinUpdates anyway, but it will save your already
installed applications. BUT it will preserve any bugs in your registry
too! Best Bet: start clean, get it just the way you want, then Ghost it
so you'll never have to go through that same setup sequence again.
 
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