replacing motherboard questions

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I have computer with a mother board from an HP Vectra VL400 with a 1000
meghertz Intel Celeron and a 200G harddrive. With an authentic XP home
operating system. No disks, I bought it used. But I have the needed home
edition codes. Slow but I like XP. I just bought a used Gateway E-2000 with a
Pentium 4 and a very small, very noisy hard drive, and all the disks for
Window 2000. Much faster than my old one. I would like to move my hard drive
with XP Home into the Gateway E-2000. How do I do that? I tried just moving
the harddrive into the Gateway and that did not work? any suggestions??
 
If you dont have the o/s system cd's you cannot either replace the mobo or
move the hd to a new PC
In order to do either you would need to run a repair installation of win
It also maybe the case that winxp you have maybe locked to the hardware of
the HP
 
So what would be my next option? I am definitely putting a bigger hard drive
into the computer with the Pentium 4 and I would like XP Home with IE7 so
what would be the most economical way to do this?? Is there an LEGAL licenced
upgrade?
 
augie said:
I have computer with a mother board from an HP Vectra VL400 with a 1000
meghertz Intel Celeron and a 200G harddrive. With an authentic XP home
operating system. No disks, I bought it used. But I have the needed home
edition codes. Slow but I like XP. I just bought a used Gateway E-2000 with a
Pentium 4 and a very small, very noisy hard drive, and all the disks for
Window 2000. Much faster than my old one. I would like to move my hard drive
with XP Home into the Gateway E-2000. How do I do that? I tried just moving
the harddrive into the Gateway and that did not work? any suggestions??
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The Windows XP user license for the HP is very likely an OEM license
that does not authorize you to use the Operating System (OS) on another
computer. Many name brand computers come with OSs that are customized to
work with a narrow range of computer model numbers and will refuse to
work with motherboard models they are not configured for anyway. Some
OEM licenses are supplied on separate media (like the ones you describe
for the Gateway), but some have software in a hidden hard drive
partition for restoring the computer to the same software and data
configuration it was in when shipped or delivered to the end user. The
non-transferable OEM license limitations probably apply to the Windows
2000 for the Gateway as well.

Use of the larger hard drive in the Gateway would require the
installation of the Windows 2000 OS on the larger hard drive or the
installation of Windows XP under a different end user license than the
one that came with the HP. If HP was utilizing removable media as the
original owners avenue to recover a damaged OS your Windows XP OS would
become unrecoverable.
 
Well Thanks, I am going with the bigger hard drive and will just run the
Win2000 on it (still much faster with the Pentuim 4) then since I can not get
IE7, I will use Mozilla for tabbed browsing lol.
I did learn new things today so thanks all.
 
You can accomplish what you want by making backup images on external drives
for both systems.
Then, take the large drive install it in your Pentium system and copy the
backup drive onto it.
 
that wont work

Unknown said:
You can accomplish what you want by making backup images on external
drives for both systems.
Then, take the large drive install it in your Pentium system and copy the
backup drive onto it.
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bacause all of the drivers will still be for the other system...........and
there is no way to run a repair installation to correct that.
peter
 
Disregard if I misunderstand what the OP wishes to accomplish.
I interpreted him to want to use the 200 gig drive in the old computer in
his new Intel computer.
To do this I would do the following steps.
1. Remove the 200gb HD from old computer and install as external on the
Intel (new) computer
2. Create an image of the HD on the new computer to the 200GB HD.
3. Install the 200 GB HD in the new computer.
If he wants to maintain the old computer simply make an image of the drive
and swap the HDs.
 
Still no go;
Hes seeking to move an installed o/s to a different PC
The o/s will not boot becaus hw has changed & he doesnt have the correct o/s
cd's to do a repair installation.
And thats ignoring the issue of OEM o/s thats probably bios locked to
origonal hw
 
Yep! You are correct. I re-read his post.
DL said:
Still no go;
Hes seeking to move an installed o/s to a different PC
The o/s will not boot becaus hw has changed & he doesnt have the correct
o/s cd's to do a repair installation.
And thats ignoring the issue of OEM o/s thats probably bios locked to
origonal hw
Click to expand...
 
augie said:
I have computer with a mother board from an HP Vectra VL400 with a 1000
meghertz Intel Celeron and a 200G harddrive. With an authentic XP home
operating system. No disks, I bought it used. But I have the needed home
edition codes. Slow but I like XP. I just bought a used Gateway E-2000 with a
Pentium 4 and a very small, very noisy hard drive, and all the disks for
Window 2000. Much faster than my old one. I would like to move my hard drive
with XP Home into the Gateway E-2000. How do I do that? I tried just moving
the harddrive into the Gateway and that did not work? any suggestions??
Click to expand...


Buy a legitimate WinXP license, to start.

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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