"jim" wrote:


That page is by one of the old foggie "can't be done" set. The article
impeaches itself early on with "Since the repair install in my opinion is an
absolute necessity when changing a motherboard or moving a hard drive with
XP installed, "

Check the URL in my opening post here by someone who is actually working the
issue I'm interested in:
www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.html



You are of course free to do whatever you want with your own computer.

However postings in these newsgroups also serve as advice to others
regarding the issues discussed and I for one am not about to advocate
high risk procedures where safer alternatives exist.

The simple fact is that the approach you advocate will in many cases
result in computers being crashed/smashed/trashed because of the
hardware changes.

The "Repair Install" approach is well proven and is safe.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."