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Old 11-29-2003, 03:03 AM   #1
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Xp Over Xp

I stayed with 98se till all my cronies now are using xp. since i haven't paid that much attention i would like to know if XP can be installed over itself. i understand that a crash is inevitable if you just put the xp hard drive from one computer into another. what is a way of doing that in order to retain programs and files already installed?
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the original drive with XP is from a computer with a dead motherboard and processor.
can anything be done?

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Boot from the XP CD, proceed to the installation, then when prompted, do a repair installation.
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