replacing hard drive

[Rob Engleder]

i am going to be replacing my hard drive with a larger
one and i am running windows xp for o.s. I purchaced comp
through a retailer (xp already installed). As i
understand xp can only be installed once. how do i go
about replacing the drive and reinstalling xp. do i have
to buy another copy of xp?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Well back your data and just install the new drive ok, when the
activiation process comes up it will ask you to re-activate in which
it may and may not ok. Just install the new drive and in your bios
make the cdrom the primary boot device.

Alvin


Rob Engleder wrote:

> i am going to be replacing my hard drive with a larger
> one and i am running windows xp for o.s. I purchaced comp
> through a retailer (xp already installed). As i
> understand xp can only be installed once. how do i go
> about replacing the drive and reinstalling xp. do i have
> to buy another copy of xp?

[Norm]

If it was my 80 gb disk, that's developed a bad spot, I would toss it and I
sure wouldn't use it for backup. Disks are so cheap these days it's just
not worth the risk. The last drive I purchased was a WD 120gb and I got it
for $60 from Staples after rebates, that's cheap.

"bdowns" > wrote in message
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> Have a couple of questions for the anyone in the group. Found out I had a
> bad spot on my hard drive that would not allow me to boot up. Had that
> fixed, but was told when you get a bad spot, u will begin to had problems
> with the hard drive. Well now I want to replace my 80GB with a 120GB
> Western Digital HD. First question:
> Does the new HD come with software that will allow me to copy everything
on
> my "old" HD to the "new" HD to make it my bootable HD? And once I install
> my new HD, should I take the old HD out or can it be used for extra
storage,
> even though it had that bad spot on it? Thanks in advance.
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