"Ron Martell" wrote in message
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"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.

Utter nonsense. What's being discussed trashes nothing. It work or it
doesn't. There are and have been a bunch of wackos running around saying
"it doesn't work so don't dare try it". The real message from these folks
is "I tried it once and couldn't make it work so don't dare show that it can
be done and expose for my short comings".

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

AND SLOW.