Transfer OS from One Machine to Another

[Roadragecowboy]

I have an E-machine that came with OS disc (XP Home) but the Emachine finally
died. I also have a Sony Vio that did not come with OS disc (XP Home) but
you do make your own recovery disc.

I'm having problems with reloading the Vio Recovery disc so how can I load
the E-machine OS into the Sony Vio?

 

[David B.]

You don't, the XP license that shipped with your emachine is OEM, it is not
transferable to any other computer, even if you tried it is very likely it
wouldn't install.
Read your Sony documentation, they provided you with some way to restore
your system, or contact Sony tech support for assistance.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have an E-machine that came with OS disc (XP Home) but the
Emachine finally died. I also have a Sony Vio that did not come
with OS disc (XP Home) but you do make your own recovery disc.

I'm having problems with reloading the Vio Recovery disc so how can
I load the E-machine OS into the Sony Vio?

Legitimately - you don't.

You purchase a legitimate license (hmmm - that could be difficult given the
date) and install that legitimate license.

 

[Missing Link]

Point 1, as has been already said you cannot transfer the license from the
e-machine to the Vaio as this is against the license agreement.

Point 2, technically this is not what you are doing as the Vaio already has
a license for the same version of XP i.e. XP Home OEM. What you cannot do
under the terms of the license is use the product key from the dead PC but
you do not need to as you have the key from the Vaio

As I understand it what you are actually trying to do is use the media
provided with the e-machine PC to reload the Vaio. If the disk was a simple
XP disk then theoretically all you need to do is boot from the CD and install
XP from the disk using the XP Home OEM key on the Vaio.

As you are asking this question I assume this does not work, most likely
because the product recovery disk from the e-machine is not a simple XP disk
but an image disk that is only compatable with the e-machine. What error
messages are you getting.

Sony should provide options if the recovery disk creation routine has failed
as appears to be quite common