Transfering old hard drive with XP installed to new pc

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Ted Zieglar

You can't. Your XP installation has the hardware profile of your old
computer. You can install the hard disk into your new computer, but then
you'll need to do a repair install of XP. OTOH, if your original
installation of XP was OEM-supplied, you may not be able to use your XP CD
on another computer. Also, if your original installation of XP was
OEM-supplied, Microsoft won't activate it.
 
I have an old hp pc with xp installed...i tried to install it into a
newer pc, but i'm getting a message that says NTLDR not loaded...how
can i install this old hard drive without reinstalling XP? please help.
 
Ted said:
You can't. Your XP installation has the hardware profile of your old
computer. You can install the hard disk into your new computer, but
then
you'll need to do a repair install of XP. OTOH, if your original
installation of XP was OEM-supplied, you may not be able to use your XP
CD
on another computer. Also, if your original installation of XP was
OEM-supplied, Microsoft won't activate it.
--
Ted Zieglar
"A fool and his data are soon parted."

"braincracker" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message

I have an old hp pc with xp installed...i tried to install it into a
newer pc, but i'm getting a message that says NTLDR not loaded...how
can i install this old hard drive without reinstalling XP? please
help.
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with a newer hp, but i'm worried about the chipset not being the same
 
Try the following procedure:

Recovering during startup
http://wurl.ca/?r=s

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| > braincrackerThanks...i tried that...it didn't work..i was hoping that it may work
| with a newer hp, but i'm worried about the chipset not being the same
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| braincracker
 
'Carey Frisch [MVP said:
']Try the following procedu

Recovering during startup
http://wurl.ca/?r=s

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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thanks, i don't want to lose any preinstalled application cos i don't
have the cds anymore...
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