Re: Migration procedures for XP

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 03/09/04


Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:33:00 -0600

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Carey Frisch
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"Armadillo Tuff" <info@armadillotuff.com> wrote in message:
 news:9af901c4061d$45434030$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| With the age of security, piracy protections, and Windows 
| XP operating systems I would like information on a 
| procedure for moving complete operating systems, 
| including all of the additional other vendor softwre 
| applications onto a new processor without having to spend 
| days trying to re-install all the software. It seems with 
| the purchase of a new computer that has a cpu, memory and 
| motherboard upgrade, Windows XP does not work on the new 
| processor. If I have been running a motherboard with 
| 512mb of memory and a processor that runs at 1mhz, and I 
| want to upgrade to new motherboard with 1gb of memory, 
| and a processor that runs in excess of 2ghz, how can I do 
| this without having to re-intall all the operating 
| softwares which include XP? I have friends asking me to 
| upgrade their computers to a new XP system and so far we 
| can't get it done without going back to square one. There 
| has to be a method so we don't have to spend days getting 
| a new system up. In the past with 98 operating systems it 
| was just a matter of upgrades after putting in a new 
| motherboard. There is software to backup complete hard 
| drive operating systems and then restore them to new and 
| bigger hard drives. We need the software to recognize 
| these new drives along with all the XP software as well 
| as the other vendors software that we have installed. I 
| hope there are answers to these question.


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