Re: reinstalling XP in new case, old HDD
- From: Albert Ross <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:44:33 +0100
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:49:04 +0100, Michael Swift
<mike.swift@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <yCQug.46171$Z61.18016@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sylvain VAN DER
WALDE <sylvain.vanderwalde@xxxxxxxxx> writes
You simply cannot take anything for granted. My recent experience in
upgrading a CPU and Motherboard: I ordered a new CPU, Motherboard, and
OEM Windows XP Home (believing that I would need a new OS). I fitted the
new items in the case, and used my original SATA HD drive (which had
everything used on the old CPU/Motherboard setup). To my surprise,
everything worked alright;
I had a complete hardware upgrade earlier this year, box, MB, CPU, vid
card, the works. I just plugged the old drive in and switched on,
windows went into hyperdrive finding new hardware but everything worked,
I upgraded to the drivers that came with the various bit and didn't lose
a single installed program, maybe I was lucky, I do have XP Pro
Corporate on a multi licence which may have been relevant.
Probably, yes.
AFAIK there are numerous different versions of "OEM".
Having read how you could activate and reactivate XP as many times as
you liked without any hardware changes, I was pissed as hell when I
built a box years back with an OEM version: after doing a couple of
format and reinstalls while trying to get everything working properly
together, I was informed on the third try that I had "activated too
many times" and couldn't do it again.
So the box was relegeated to a testbed and XP was reintalled from
scratch every month until after six months when it allowed my to
activate again.
I have a habit of doing a full reinstall anyway after significant
hardware and software changes, and annually, never had any problems
since. Other OEM versions are locked to the BIOS, yet others like
yours you can do most anything with.
HINT: I keep windows on its own partition, programs on their own
partition (except for the ones that insist of installing elsewhere)
and data and backups on their own partitions so a reinstall never
loses me anything crucial. Though how you can achieve this if you have
a bought computer with only a "restore" disk eludes me.
(Off topic - while writing this the meter reader just dropped by, his
PDA just crashed for the fifth time today, it's not just a Windows
problem <G>)
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