New computer, same old xp

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I am getting a new bare bones computer. I will be installing my old hard
drive (with official version of xp home editition) in to the new machine.
Will I have any problems with XP or will it continue to work with the new
machine?
 
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
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| I am getting a new bare bones computer. I will be installing my old hard
| drive (with official version of xp home editition) in to the new machine.
| Will I have any problems with XP or will it continue to work with the new
| machine?
 
koonjoe said:
I am getting a new bare bones computer. I will be installing my old hard
drive (with official version of xp home editition) in to the new machine.
Will I have any problems with XP or will it continue to work with the new
machine?
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A repair install might be needed, particularly if the new one is
significantly different in hardware from the old. It's probably best to
do this right before trying to boot into windows the first time. See
this link for info on how to do a repair install.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

One question, is the service pack level of the installation on the drive
the same as that of the installation CD? If the not and the
installation on the drive has a higher SP level it will give you an
error message about the version being newer.

In that case make a slipstreamed installation CD incorporating that
higher SP (I am guessing it would be SP2) and do the repair install with
that. Here are some links for slipstreaming.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/beginner/slipstream.htm

Autostreamer
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562
 
koonjoe said:
I am getting a new bare bones computer. I will be installing my old
hard drive (with official version of xp home editition) in to the new
machine. Will I have any problems with XP or will it continue to work
with the new machine?
Click to expand...



You will almost certainly have to do at least a repair installation.
Deepending on how different the new computer ius from the old one, it's very
possible that that won't be sufficient and you'll have to do a clean
installation.
 
koonjoe said:
I am getting a new bare bones computer. I will be installing my old hard
drive (with official version of xp home editition) in to the new machine.
Will I have any problems with XP or will it continue to work with the new
machine?
Click to expand...


Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore 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

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with
licensing issues, per se; it's a purely technical matter, at this point.
You've pulled the proverbial hardware rug out from under the OS. (If
you don't like -- or get -- the rug analogy, think of it as picking up a
Cape Cod style home and then setting it down onto a Ranch style
foundation. It just isn't going to fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it,
is not nearly as "promiscuous" as Win9x when it comes to accepting any
old hardware configuration you throw at it. On installation it
"tailors" itself to the specific hardware found. This is one of the
reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP OS family is so much more stable
than the Win9x group.

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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