Moving XP drive to another machine

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Renee

My old motherboard went belly up and I am moving all my
components to a new barebone. After installing
everything, I just get a flashing cursor when it is
trying to load XP. Can't I just move the drive to the
new computer? Is there something special that I need to
do??

Thanks for your help

Renee
 
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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| My old motherboard went belly up and I am moving all my
| components to a new barebone. After installing
| everything, I just get a flashing cursor when it is
| trying to load XP. Can't I just move the drive to the
| new computer? Is there something special that I need to
| do??
|
| Thanks for your help
|
| Renee
 
I can't even get the drive up at all on my old machine to do any further
backing up. Do you think the Repair Install is going to mess up the drive?
I might just have to take the chance :-(
 
Renee said:
My old motherboard went belly up and I am moving all my
components to a new barebone. After installing
everything, I just get a flashing cursor when it is
trying to load XP. Can't I just move the drive to the
new computer? Is there something special that I need to
do??

Thanks for your help

Renee
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Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM installations
and licenses are not transferable to a new motherboard - check yours
before starting), unless the new motherboard is virtually identical
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the
one on which the 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 also probably require re-activation, unless you have a
Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. 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.

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Rho_1r said:
as to drives ,ect, there is no license problems, just the "mobo"
that requires a new license,,, little side notes for clarity
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Not clarity - just irrelevant nonsense.

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