Question on Upgrading

[Thomas Lees]

I was talking to the man who will be doing my upgrade and I was saying about
when he can come pick my old computer up to transfer the hard drive to the
new case.

He mentioned that there might be when starting up windows with the new
computer that it can cause windows not to except the new settings. Which I
thought was odd as I upgrade before and had no problem at all. Just he said
he might have to wipe windows or reinstall windows if that happens. What I
am asking is, is there any truth in this? Or is it one of those 1 chance in
100 things?

I am now a

AMD Athlon 1900+
1gb DDR Ram
128mb Geforce 4ti 4200
Biostar Group Motherboard

And will go to

AMD Athlon XP 3800+
2gb DDR400 Ram
256 XFX Geforce 6800 Ultra
Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card

my hard drive I have will be moved from old system to the new, I am running
WinXP with the SP2 installed.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Phil]

This assume a retail version of xp is installed:
No reason to pay someone to do this. Simply transfer the drive into the new
case and then do a repair install of xp. A repair install will(should) keep
all your personal files, data, and settings. Sure there's a chance that you
would have to format the drive, but it's highly unlikely. A repair install
should be all that's needed. In any case backup your personal stuff to
another drive, cd-r's, or dvd's before you switch the drive to the new
computer.
Also note: if your windows xp came pre-installed(oem version) on your old
computer then you are not allowed to transfer it to a new computer. Oem
versions are tied to the first computer they are installed on forever. In
this case you'd need to buy xp.

 

[Jim Macklin]

You will need to do a repair install because of the number
of changes. But you will need to take into account the fact
that your XP CD is older than the SP2 update. You may need
to create a slipstreamed disk to do the upgrade.


|I was talking to the man who will be doing my upgrade and I
was saying about
| when he can come pick my old computer up to transfer the
hard drive to the
| new case.
|
| He mentioned that there might be when starting up windows
with the new
| computer that it can cause windows not to except the new
settings. Which I
| thought was odd as I upgrade before and had no problem at
all. Just he said
| he might have to wipe windows or reinstall windows if that
happens. What I
| am asking is, is there any truth in this? Or is it one of
those 1 chance in
| 100 things?
|
| I am now a
|
| AMD Athlon 1900+
| 1gb DDR Ram
| 128mb Geforce 4ti 4200
| Biostar Group Motherboard
|
| And will go to
|
| AMD Athlon XP 3800+
| 2gb DDR400 Ram
| 256 XFX Geforce 6800 Ultra
| Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard
| Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card
|
| my hard drive I have will be moved from old system to the
new, I am running
| WinXP with the SP2 installed.
|
| Any help is greatly appreciated.
|
|

 

[Thomas Lees]

Thanks guys, I sent your responses to the man who is upgrading my computer.
Perhaps he can suggest some course of action.

-tom

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I was talking to the man who will be doing my upgrade and I was
saying about when he can come pick my old computer up to transfer
the hard drive to the new case.

He mentioned that there might be when starting up windows with the
new computer that it can cause windows not to except the new
settings. Which I thought was odd as I upgrade before and had no
problem at all. Just he said he might have to wipe windows or
reinstall windows if that happens. What I am asking is, is there
any truth in this? Or is it one of those 1 chance in 100 things?

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.

--

Bruce Chambers

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