Moving Hard Drive with XP to new mobo & processor

[Joel P.]

I'm building a new system with an Intel Q6600 and a Gigabyte mobo. The old
system which is still working has an AMD 64 processor running XP Pro. Can I
just pull and re-install the old hard drive into the new system and it'll
boot? Or is a complete windows XP re-install in my future?

 

[Andrew E.]

A complete reinstall,boot to xp cd,install xp,new copy,delete the partition,
create one,let xp format & install auto.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I'm building a new system with an Intel Q6600 and a Gigabyte mobo. The old
system which is still working has an AMD 64 processor running XP Pro. Can I
just pull and re-install the old hard drive into the new system and it'll
boot? Or is a complete windows XP re-install in my future?

Three points:

1. At the very least, you will need to do a repair installation.

2. Sometimes the repair installation is insufficient and you need to
do a complete clean reinstallation.

3. Is the old system an OEM one? If so, your copy of Windows is an OEM
one, and its license agreement limits it to the first computer it's
installed on. That means that you may not do what you suggest without
violating that agreement.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I'm building a new system with an Intel Q6600 and a Gigabyte mobo.
The old system which is still working has an AMD 64 processor
running XP Pro. Can I just pull and re-install the old hard drive
into the new system and it'll boot? Or is a complete windows XP
re-install in my future?

- Is the license for Windows XP an OEM one or a retail one?
- Google this:
Repair Installation of Windows XP "Michael Stevens"