hrlyjoe43 said:
I would like to build a new cpu and was wondering , if I could put the two
hard drives i have into the new cpu .
Sorry, but that's not at all possible. A CPU is a semiconductor chip
on the motherboard inside your computer. It serves as the "brain" of
the PC. It takes a great deal of expertise and specialized equipment to
develop a new CPU. Just ask Intel or AMD. And once made, there's
certainly no way to place a hard drive inside a semiconductor chip.
I have a 40 gb master and a 300 gb
slave drive . the 40 gas the os and some other things , like nero and active
sync . the 300 has all my downloaded software and pictures , music , etc .
It seems that with all the work one puts into a system , it would be a shame
to start all over .
Ah, so you want to reuse the hard drives in a new computer! Yes,
that's possible. Mind you, the 40Gb drive that contains your operating
system is liable to be somewhat old and slow (it has been years since
that was a standard size), so it really wouldn't make much sense,
performance-wise, to use it as the system drive of a newer and
presumably faster computer; you wouldn't be able to get the computer's
best performance by running it from a slower hard drive.
Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore 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
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with
licensing issues, per se; it's a purely technical matter, at this point.
You've pulled the proverbial hardware rug out from under the OS. (If
you don't like -- or get -- the rug analogy, think of it as picking up a
Cape Cod style home and then setting it down onto a Ranch style
foundation. It just isn't going to fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it,
is not nearly as "promiscuous" as Win9x when it comes to accepting any
old hardware configuration you throw at it. On installation it
"tailors" itself to the specific hardware found. This is one of the
reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP OS family is so much more stable
than the Win9x group.
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.
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