Migrate XP partition from P4 to AMD 64

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Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether the following will work;

Clone a bootable XP partition on a P4, mirror to a new HDD (hard disk),
& plug new HDD into an AMD 64 machine...

It will obviously save me lots of reconfiguration work...

I would like to keep the existing OEM XP licence that I have on the old
P4.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Tom Jermy
 
Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether the following will work;

Clone a bootable XP partition on a P4, mirror to a new HDD (hard disk),
& plug new HDD into an AMD 64 machine...

It will obviously save me lots of reconfiguration work...

I would like to keep the existing OEM XP licence that I have on the old
P4.
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Probably not. You'll likely have to do a repair install of the OS to get it
recognized on the new motherboard. If the OEM version of XP you have is
bios-locked, it's not going to run on that new motherboard.
 
I'm not sure whether the old OEM OS is bios locked... it's a HP machine
that I am migrating from...

Does the repair feature just sort out the boot sector, or is it going
to install a completely new %systemroot% folder, and need me to migrate
profile & apps so that the registry works?
 
I'm not sure whether the old OEM OS is bios locked... it's a HP machine
that I am migrating from...

Does the repair feature just sort out the boot sector, or is it going
to install a completely new %systemroot% folder, and need me to migrate
profile & apps so that the registry works?
Click to expand...

If you got an HP restore disk, you're not going to be able to run it on a
different motherboard. It's going to give you an annoying message of some
sort saying that you can't install it anywhere but on the original computer.
Or, it may install but then refuse to activate, and you're still nowhere.

Then, even if you did get the disk to run on your new setup, you may be in
for additional surprises. HP disks (when they actually shipped them with
computers) were often just images of the system, with no chance to do a
repair install of the system, just a complete reinstall. But at this point,
it doesn't matter, since it's not going to work anyway.

You're going to need to buy a copy of XP for the new computer.
 
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