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Hello I just bought a new computer without a hard drive installed. i planed
on taking the drive from my old system and installing it into the new one.
when I connect the drive I comes to the safe mode or normal screen and thats
as far as it goes.
I was running windows xp home on the old computer. will this work or not.
 
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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| Hello I just bought a new computer without a hard drive installed. i planed
| on taking the drive from my old system and installing it into the new one.
| when I connect the drive I comes to the safe mode or normal screen and thats
| as far as it goes.
| I was running windows xp home on the old computer. will this work or not.
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| steve
 
1. put the drive back in the old machine, backup your data
2.take the drive out of the old machime and install it in the new one
3.boot from the XPcd reformat the drive and reinstall XP and the new mobo
drivers 4.restore your data
 
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