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01-24-2008, 08:54 AM
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Using my older Hard Drive?
This is my first time building a computer and I was wondering if I could use my old hard drive with my windows xp on it in the new computer as my main drive and OS? Any advice?
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01-24-2008, 09:05 AM
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If you bought that computer at a store the hard drive will probably be linked to your computer and won't work on anything else.
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01-24-2008, 09:13 AM
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Windows XP is installed on your computer and then knows what hardware you have installed. If you make more than 3 hardware changes it freaks out and wont work. If you want to zero out the HDD and then install a fresh copy of XP then you can do that. I suggest making a slipstream disk for XP so you dont have to do that much updating.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...slipstream.asp
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