New system with old HD?

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John Blaustein

I have a PIII/1Ghz system running Windows XP Home. I want to get a new PC
with a P4 processor. I am not clear whether I can simply move my HD from
the PIII to the P4. Will the P4 system recognize XP on the HD? Will XP on
the HD recognize the new system hardware? I'm hoping not to have to
reinstall Windows and all apps.

Thanks for any help here.

John
 
Read this all the way thru before starting.

You will need to do a repair install. Follow these steps:

Set your BIOS to have the CD drive as the first boot device.

Start the operating system from the CD-ROM,

When the computer starts from the CD, the system checks your hardware

and then prompts you to select one of the following options:

To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER.

To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.

To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.


Press ENTER.


Press F8 to accept the Licensing Agreement.

A box lists your current Windows XP installation, and then the system

prompts you to select one of the following options:

To repair the selected Windows XP installation, press R.

To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows XP without repairing, press
ESC.

Press R to start the automatic repair process. After repairing Windows XP,
set your BIOS back to have the hard drive as the first boot device.

Have your Product Key at hand as you will probably have to re-activate.

You will probably need re-download all updates, starting with SP1. You can
go to the Windows site and download the XP Rollup 1 package, which will make
the reinstalling of the updates much easier and quicker.

The repair installation should leave all your data and settings intact, but
you may want to backup critical data.
 
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