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i have P-III pc with windows xp sp2 my mother board crashed now i
have a new pc dual core 3.0 i want to run windows from my old hard
drive


Thanks

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:57:02 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

> i have P-III pc with windows xp sp2 my mother board crashed now i
> have a new pc dual core 3.0 i want to run windows from my old hard
> drive


Unless the new motherboard is identical to the old one, you will
have to do at least a repair installation of Windows. See "How to
Perform a Windows XP Repair Install" at
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

That usually works, but occasionally it's not sufficient, and a
clean reinstallation is required. That's worst case, but barring
something terrible going wrong, will always work.

Most of the time, by far, the repair installation is sufficient. I
just wanted to alert you of the possibility of needing a clean
reinstallation, so you are prepared for it if the worst happens. So be
prepared for that possibility with up-to-date backups, software media
for reinstallation, etc. You *probably won't need them, but better to
be prepared than sorry.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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