Switching Hard Drives

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I just bought a brand new dell computer with windows xp installed. My old computer too has windows xp installed, plus tons of other files. I want to put the old hard drive in the new computer, but not have to delete windows xp off of the new hard drive. Any suggestions on how i should go about this?
 
jimmyt said:
I just bought a brand new dell computer with windows xp installed. My old
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computer too has windows xp installed, plus tons of other files. I want to
put the old hard drive in the new computer, but not have to delete windows
xp off of the new hard drive. Any suggestions on how i should go about this?

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Install the old disk as a slave disk. You will see all your old files on
drive D:.
 
I read that I have to go through with some Window Re Install or something, is this true? Or do I just do what you have said?
 
jimmyt said:
I read that I have to go through with some Window Re Install or something,
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is this true? Or do I just do what you have said?

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You wrote in your first post that your new machine comes with its own
version of WinXP. Installing a slave disk will have no effect on this
version - it will continue to run exactly as before.
 
jimmyt said:
They are oem though, does this make any difference?
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To me there are two versions of WinXP Professional:
- Those that work
- Those that don't work.

I prefer the former.
 
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