Moving windows XP from old drive to new one

[David L]

Is it possible to move Windows XP from one hard drive to
another newer one? I have old hard drive and want to
ditch it for a newer faster one, but I don't want to
reinstall every single thing on my computer. I know you
can move certain setting from one comp to the next..but
windows XP is so fussy about it's product key, and will
want me to call again to reinstall it! (tends to be very
annoying for someone that upgrades a lot) :S

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Yes you can perform that taks, you can use Norton's Ghost 2003
go to www.symantec.com and purchase that software

Alvin


David L wrote:

> Is it possible to move Windows XP from one hard drive to
> another newer one? I have old hard drive and want to
> ditch it for a newer faster one, but I don't want to
> reinstall every single thing on my computer. I know you
> can move certain setting from one comp to the next..but
> windows XP is so fussy about it's product key, and will
> want me to call again to reinstall it! (tends to be very
> annoying for someone that upgrades a lot) :S

[David L]

Hi,

But I just read below, that XP will then state an improper
product key is installed and won't boot...requiring one to
reinstall windows again. Or would I just use the 'repair'
option? I just don't want to loose all my installed
software...took me 2 days to reinstall everything last
time I had to wipe my Hard Drive
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>
>Yes you can perform that taks, you can use Norton's Ghost
2003
>go to www.symantec.com and purchase that software
>
>Alvin
>
>
>David L wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to move Windows XP from one hard drive to
>> another newer one? I have old hard drive and want to
>> ditch it for a newer faster one, but I don't want to
>> reinstall every single thing on my computer. I know you
>> can move certain setting from one comp to the next..but
>> windows XP is so fussy about it's product key, and will
>> want me to call again to reinstall it! (tends to be
very
>> annoying for someone that upgrades a lot) :S
>
>.
>

[Dan DeStefano]

swapping a hdd should not be enough of a change to require you to reactivate
windows. i have done this and did not have to reactivate. changing of
hardware such as cpu, network adapter, motherboard will require
reactivation, but changing components such as your hdd or video card should
not.

Dan DeStefano


"David L" > wrote in message
...
> Is it possible to move Windows XP from one hard drive to
> another newer one? I have old hard drive and want to
> ditch it for a newer faster one, but I don't want to
> reinstall every single thing on my computer. I know you
> can move certain setting from one comp to the next..but
> windows XP is so fussy about it's product key, and will
> want me to call again to reinstall it! (tends to be very
> annoying for someone that upgrades a lot) :S