oem XP home and hardware upgrade

[Guest]

My computer which was running an oem XP Home had a major motherboard
meltdown. As the computer itself was fairly old anyway, I have taken the
step of upgrading most of what was inside (only the hdds and the dvd are the
same).

Obviously it won't windows boot with the new hardware - oem eula violation.
So I want to know if I can just go and buy a full version XP Home (or indeed
another oem XP) and do a repair using the new XP Home CD and have all my old
settings, user accounts/documents etc saved? Is this possible? Or would I
need do a re-install, and lose all the user accounts and associated files?

 

[Lil' Dave]

Let's just say I've done a repair using an OEM generic version XP install
CD. I changed the mobo and cpu. Same CD and key used on prior motherboard.

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Dave
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