If i buy a bare bones kit http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=...
And put my harddrive from my old e-machine which would fit there, and has windows XP on it....Will it boot up useing windows XP? or does windows XP have some way of knowing that the harddrive is attached to a differnt motherboard and not allow me to boot up and use it as my operating software??
alrighty I have seen that error message that windows needs to be activated....what do you do next? could I put linux on it for free and then install it on that system?
2007-12-05 11:45:33 · 3 answers · asked by agnscody@sbcglobal.net 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You can install windows xp on another machine, no problem. when you activate it, they will ask you if it has been removed off the old machine, say yes and your good to go. as far as recognizing hardware, you can't pull a hard drive with xp from one computer and put it in a different kind of computer and expect it to work. I believe the mother board has to be the same.
2007-12-05 12:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by dave48617 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Windows XP creates a file that stores the hardware configuration and checks to make sure the PC is the same, or nearly so. Linux if fine but way different.
2007-12-05 19:49:26 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just go ahead and activate it if your lucky it will cary over
2007-12-05 19:48:24 · answer #3 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋