Reinstall xp after replacing crashed hard drive that had OEM insta

[Guest]

My 2 year old HP's hard drive lost the partition formatting. The data is
being professionally recovered but in the meantime, I need to reinstall xp on
a new hard drive. The OEM recovery disks are worthless because it's not the
same make/model hard drive (when would it ever be?). I could purchase a full
blown $200 xp home and move on, but hey, I've already bought it, right? So,
tell me if y'all think this will work... I use an old 98 or me disk to
install on the new hard drive, then use an upgrade version of xp that I
bought for a different computer over that, then activate it with the original
product key that came with my problematic computer. I asked the Microsoft
free phone support guy if he thought that was legit and would work and he
thought it would... Anybody?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My 2 year old HP's hard drive lost the partition formatting. The data is
being professionally recovered but in the meantime, I need to reinstall xp on
a new hard drive. The OEM recovery disks are worthless because it's not the
same make/model hard drive (when would it ever be?). I could purchase a full
blown $200 xp home and move on, but hey, I've already bought it, right? So,
tell me if y'all think this will work... I use an old 98 or me disk to
install on the new hard drive, then use an upgrade version of xp that I
bought for a different computer over that, then activate it with the original
product key that came with my problematic computer. I asked the Microsoft
free phone support guy if he thought that was legit and would work and he
thought it would... Anybody?

- Why install Win98 or WinME if you don't want it?
It's a waste of time - the WinXP installation process
will prompt you for a qualifying Win98/ME CD if it needs it!
- You can re-activate WinXP if it still runs on the same PC as
the failed version.
- Compare the cost of data recovery with the cost of a 2.5"
disk in an external USB case, used for regular backups.

 

[Rock]

My 2 year old HP's hard drive lost the partition formatting. The data is
being professionally recovered but in the meantime, I need to reinstall xp on
a new hard drive. The OEM recovery disks are worthless because it's not the
same make/model hard drive (when would it ever be?). I could purchase a full
blown $200 xp home and move on, but hey, I've already bought it, right? So,
tell me if y'all think this will work... I use an old 98 or me disk to
install on the new hard drive, then use an upgrade version of xp that I
bought for a different computer over that, then activate it with the original
product key that came with my problematic computer. I asked the Microsoft
free phone support guy if he thought that was legit and would work and he
thought it would... Anybody?

You don't actually need to install 98 or me, just do a clean install
with the upgrade version and it will ask for the qualifying media to be
inserted at some point. But I don't believe the license key for the OEM
version of XP will work with the retail upgrade version.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the response. You say that I can reactivate as long as it's on
the same machine, which it is. Does it matter that the xp version actually
being installed is an upgrade version? Does that conflict with the product
key?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

See Rock's reply.

Thanks for the response. You say that I can reactivate as long as it's on
the same machine, which it is. Does it matter that the xp version actually
being installed is an upgrade version? Does that conflict with the product
key?

 

[Michael Stevens]

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My 2 year old HP's hard drive lost the partition formatting. The
data is being professionally recovered but in the meantime, I need to
reinstall xp on a new hard drive. The OEM recovery disks are
worthless because it's not the same make/model hard drive (when would
it ever be?). I could purchase a full blown $200 xp home and move
on, but hey, I've already bought it, right? So, tell me if y'all
think this will work... I use an old 98 or me disk to install on the
new hard drive, then use an upgrade version of xp that I bought for a
different computer over that, then activate it with the original
product key that came with my problematic computer. I asked the
Microsoft free phone support guy if he thought that was legit and
would work and he thought it would... Anybody?

Are you sure the hard drive needs to be the same? I don't think is a
deciding factor when using the restore disks. You should try them on the new
drive, I bet it works.

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[Michael Stevens]

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Are you sure the hard drive needs to be the same? I don't think is a
deciding factor when using the restore disks. You should try them on
the new drive, I bet it works.

After checking the HP web site, I am sure the Recovery CD's will restore to
a new hard drive. You must remove any added peripheral hardware or extra
hard drives before starting the restore.

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