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bluepen

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    Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
    « on: February 02, 2009, 05:14:53 AM »
    Hi,
    Is it possible to do the following:

    take a hard drive with win xp already installed on one machine and then put it into another machine with a different motherboard

    would i have to do a repair installation?


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      Re: Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
      « Reply #1 on: February 02, 2009, 06:54:50 AM »
      check your specs first before you do anything and it depends on what type of computer/motherboard you have.  If its going into a computer with the same hardware and specs then yes.  But if its a faster or slower mother board or a different video card, then it may come up wrong.  I've experimented with this before and put an old hard drive in an old computer and a couple of things happened, the video resoulution and color was jacked up and I couldn't fix it without re-installing the OS and a couple of times it has thrown a blue screen, and I've found out that if its not a blue screen for installing windows, setting or you dont do it, most of the time its bad.  So long story short, I wouldn't
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      bluepen

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        Re: Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
        « Reply #2 on: February 02, 2009, 07:40:44 AM »
        the motherboard is different different specs also, but wouldnt a recovery/repair install of windows work so rather than changing the hard drives i also should install xp on the new hard drive but only as a repair so i get to keep the files

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          Re: Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
          « Reply #3 on: February 02, 2009, 07:44:57 AM »
          you may just have to create a back up, because a system restore wouldn't do anything on a new computer, because theres nothing to restore.  Everythings on the harddrive already.  If you have Ghost, or could get you hand on a copy, that would be the easiest thing, and it would probably take you about 5-7 minutes or less
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          Re: Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
          « Reply #4 on: February 02, 2009, 07:46:56 AM »
          Repair Install of XP

          I suggest reading it thoroughly paying special attention to the warnings and printing out a copy for reference...
          Done properly the machine will now boot with your data and Apps intact...
          Done improperly all your data will be gone but you will have a fresh install of XP.
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          bluepen

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            Re: Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
            « Reply #5 on: February 02, 2009, 09:37:53 AM »
            thanks patio thats a handy guide

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            Re: Transfer hard drives from pc to pc
            « Reply #6 on: February 02, 2009, 09:44:56 AM »
            Thank Michael Stevens....
            Best of Luck.
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