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Hello
Is it possible for a hard drive which has any operating system in it be transftred into a newly formatted hard drive using cut and past and use it?
Reason:
I've installed winxp in an old 4g hard drive (very small for winxp) that has been activated. I understand that only one activation allowed for the op system. Now I want to use the operating system in a new hard drive.
If you don't want to lose any data, use something like norton ghost, there shouldn't be any problems with the activation code, and just changing hard drives....
But if you don't care about losing data, you can reinstall XP. You will have to reactivate XP. You can reactivate XP if you decide to reinstall.
I doubt Microsoft would be that crual and not allow reactivation for reinstalls.
Just an idea to save yourself to trouble of ghosting.
MD
[quote]Originally posted by jds1978:
<strong>Hello
Is it possible for a hard drive which has any operating system in it be transftred into a newly formatted hard drive using cut and past and use it?
Reason:
I've installed winxp in an old 4g hard drive (very small for winxp) that has been activated. I understand that only one activation allowed for the op system. Now I want to use the operating system in a new hard drive.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Norton ghost. The only way. The problem with cut and past is it does not copy the MBR. if you want to reinstall, then copy/past will work.
If you don't need the data, don't worry about the activation.
All you will have to do is call their 1 800 number and explain to them that you are moving it to a different machine.
I have called them 3 times now and they have never given me any trouble.
Good luck
If you're putting the harddrive in a different box you'll probably have to reactive. I got a new harddrive and took my old one with winxp and was hoping I could put it in a different box without formating but it didn't work so I had to format anyway.
It's kinda strange cause I've changed the motherboard and cpu in one box and xp gave me no problems, but then I decided to change a video card, sound card and something else and it tells me to reactivate <shrugs> And when I tried to move the whole harddrive it wasn't having that at all hehe
Love the os but the activation thing is a bit of a pain IMO.
PZ