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GWard

I am building a new home pc and I want to use my newer HD
that I have that is installed on my old P3. The HD has XP
Pro loaded on it. Is it acceptable to reload XP once
connected to my new motherboard, and re-register XP with
Microsoft. I dont how I am supposed to handle this as
Microsoft requires registration and the configuration has
changed.

Thanks for any info on this,

Grant Ward
 
GWard said:
I am building a new home pc and I want to use my newer HD
that I have that is installed on my old P3. The HD has XP
Pro loaded on it. Is it acceptable to reload XP once
connected to my new motherboard, and re-register XP with
Microsoft. I dont how I am supposed to handle this as
Microsoft requires registration and the configuration has
changed.

Thanks for any info on this,

Grant Ward
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If I understand you correctly, yes, it is acceptable to install your XP
Pro on the new home PC as long as you remove it from the original PC;
you see, you only have one Windows XP license, so it can only be
installed on one PC at a time. You may have to reactivate the license by
contacting Microsoft, though.

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Yes, this is acceptable. Call Microsoft and explain the situation, and
you are okay as far as activation goes. Use the toll-free number on your
packaged product.
I take it you correctly realize that you cannot remove the hard drive
from an old machine, put it into a new machine, and expect it to work.
Windows, during Setup, writes thousands of hardware-specific settings to the
system registry, and as such, you *must* re-run Setup. In fact, I'd suggest
starting clean, and doing a complete, clean re-install. Don't forget to back
up your data files first from the old computer. You may be able to do this
on an extended partition of the hard disk.
 
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