Guest PC's Plus Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 I don't know if this is the right Dis.Group or not but here goes. I have a computer that the motherboard died on. I built a new one. my question is can I take the hard drive from the system that died (AMD cpu, with Compaq motherboard, 512MB memory) and put it in the new system (intel duel core, with Asus MB, 2GB memory). The hard drive has xp home on it, and is working ok. I've tryed swaping HD's before and it asked a question about saving changes and I don't remember the answer. Can any help me. Thank You -- Thomas G.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Re: New Disk On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:18:00 -0700, PC's Plus <PCsPlus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I don't know if this is the right Dis.Group or not but here goes. > I have a computer that the motherboard died on. I built a new one. my > question is can I take the hard drive from the system that died (AMD cpu, > with Compaq motherboard, 512MB memory) and put it in the new system (intel > duel core, with Asus MB, 2GB memory). Yes. But if you are asking whether Windows will work if you do that, the answer is no. Just swapping the drive to the new machine is not sufficient unless the motherboards are identical. Normally, a Repair installation, and then reactivation, is all you need to do. It's a rare occurrence, but occasionally the differences between the two motherboards are severe enough that a repair installation doesn't work, and a complete clean installation is required. > The hard drive has xp home on it, and > is working ok. I've tryed swaping HD's before and it asked a question about > saving changes and I don't remember the answer. Can any help me. > Thank You > -- > Thomas G. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest witan Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Re: New Disk On Oct 16, 5:18 am, PC's Plus <PCsP...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I don't know if this is the right Dis.Group or not but here goes. > I have a computer that the motherboard died on. I built a new one. my > question is can I take the hard drive from the system that died (AMD cpu, > with Compaq motherboard, 512MB memory) and put it in the new system (intel > duel core, with Asus MB, 2GB memory). The hard drive has xp home on it, and > is working ok. I've tryed swaping HD's before and it asked a question about > saving changes and I don't remember the answer. Can any help me. > Thank You > -- > Thomas G. I had a similar problem a few months ago, with one difference, that I had Windows-XP Pro, SP2. Repair installation, as advised in your case by Ken Blake, MVP worked okay -- i.e., I didn't have to reinstall all auxiliary programs, like MS Office, anti-virus, etc. But, ALL ancient and current UPDATES FOR WINDOWS-XP were required. Also, the repair installation will work with a different motherboard only if one has a retail version of XP.
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