New hardware and Old HD with genuine installed XP and MS Office 2003 and activated.

[Suresh Lohar]

I have a Personal Desktop computer:
Hardware:
-Intel 845 GL mother board
-Intel 1.80 MHz Pentium 4 Processor
-RAM DDR 640 Mb
-Hard Disk 40 GB

Software:
Installed genuine retail purchased Windows Xp and Office 2003, Later both
updated
through windows and office update with SP1 & SP2.

Now I want to buy two new hardware and want to replace with old ones. i.e.
1- Intel Pentium 4 Processor with 3.2 GHz (HT)
2- Intel 915 GL mother board.

Now I want to know from u all learned people that can I use Old HD with New
Hardware.
If Yes, How? Please let me know about both the software. And how to activate
them
again with microsoft.

I guess I will definately get the help, then only I will start to get the
things done accordingly.
Thanx

 

[Malke]

I have a Personal Desktop computer:
Hardware:
-Intel 845 GL mother board
-Intel 1.80 MHz Pentium 4 Processor
-RAM DDR 640 Mb
-Hard Disk 40 GB

Software:
Installed genuine retail purchased Windows Xp and Office 2003, Later
both updated
through windows and office update with SP1 & SP2.

Now I want to buy two new hardware and want to replace with old ones.
i.e.
1- Intel Pentium 4 Processor with 3.2 GHz (HT)
2- Intel 915 GL mother board.

After you install your new motherboard and processor, you will need to
do a Repair Install. Everything should still work, but it would be wise
to back up all your data anyway in case it turns out you need to do a
Clean Install. If you do need to re-activate Windows, this is no big
deal.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html - for changing
motherboard
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

One thing to keep in mind for the Repair Install - if your original XP
CD did not have Service Pack 2 included and you have Service Pack 2
installed, you'll need to make a slipstreamed XP install CD with SP2 in
it. This is very easy. I like AutoStreamer, but there are other
methods. Here are links to explain that:

How to slipstream sp2 into XP
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
- AutoStreamer
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
http://www.windows-help.net/windowsxp/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm

Malke