transferring XP and data to a new computer.

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Rodney Brown

Please help. I have a new computer (new to me) that I've
moved my hard drive from my old computer to my new
computer but Windows XP Pro won't bootup. I've even tried
booting into Safe Mode but it won't work. Is there any
way that I can do this without having to reinstall
everything? Please tell me if there is.
One thing that I have tried is ghosting my hard drive to
another hard drive and reinstalling XP Pro and the backup
hard drive but this didn't work either.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Rodney Brown
 
Rodney, WinXP on your drive is looking for all the old hardware and is
lost. Not to sure why ghosting didnt work unless
you are using and older version of ghost. What you can try is restore the
hard drive in the older computer. Then if it boots
up Ok Rt click on MyComputer>Select Properties>Hardware>Device
Manager. Then try to uninstall as many
devices as you can. Just rt click and select Uninstall. After that's done
retry it in the new computer.
 
Rich Barrys method may or may not work depending how similar the
motherboards of the two computers are. The offical way is to do a repair
install a.k.a. inplace upgrade after Ghosting your drive
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341
watch the wordwrap

You should not lose any of your previous data but as always a backup of your
data is sensible.

This will only work if you have a retail bootable WinXP CDROM - if your
previous computer had an OEM version you may only have a system restore
disc and in this case your only option is to buy a retail version of WinXP
to use.
 
Greetings --

Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the
old one (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.),
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

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This may also require re-activation. 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.


Bruce Chambers

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