Moving installed XP OS hard drive to another system box

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My message is related to Chuck's, but my intent is to permanently move my hard disk w/XP home OS to new system box
Currently have P3 Dell system, am moving to new P4 system box w/2.8 Ghz P4. What will I need to do before I shut down & move disk drive?
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

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

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Windows XP - Shell/User

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| My message is related to Chuck's, but my intent is to permanently move my hard disk w/XP home OS to new
system box.
| Currently have P3 Dell system, am moving to new P4 system box w/2.8 Ghz P4. What will I need to do before I
shut down & move disk drive?
 
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Bruce Chambers

Greetings --

Normally, and assuming either a retail license (OEM licenses are
not transferable), unless your motherboard is virtually identical
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the
one on which the other WinXP installation was originally performed,
you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade)
installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will probably also require re-activation. If it's been more
than 120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key,
you'll most likely be able to activate via the internet without
problem. If it's been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone
call.


Bruce Chambers

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RNewman said:
My message is related to Chuck's, but my intent is to permanently
move my hard disk w/XP home OS to new system box.
Currently have P3 Dell system, am moving to new P4 system box w/2.8
Ghz P4. What will I need to do before I shut down & move disk drive?
 

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