Putting hard drive in new pc

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I am buying a new PC and was wodering what I have to do to install my
existing hard drive in to my new computer. I was told the new install of XP
will have problems with the old hard drive.
Thanks

 

[Jim]

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"Ritchie" <Ritchie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am buying a new PC and was wodering what I have to do to install my
> existing hard drive in to my new computer. I was told the new install of
> XP
> will have problems with the old hard drive.
> Thanks
If you use your old drive as the operating system disk (the one which has
Windows), then you will need to perform a repair installation. Yes, that
could easily qualify as a problem.
If you insert you old drive as an additional disk, Windows will work well.
In this case, you will need to decide what you want to do with the old
drive.

I would not install a disk which is more than a couple (or so) years old.
New ones are so cheap these days.
Jim

 

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The old drive has xp on it but i would just use it as a secondary drive as it
has all my pictures, music, programs ect. on it. Would i have to delete the
version of XP it already has on it?

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "Ritchie" <Ritchie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:57EE2AE5-EAD0-41FB-A3A2-F19E7D122DA7@microsoft.com...
> >I am buying a new PC and was wodering what I have to do to install my
> > existing hard drive in to my new computer. I was told the new install of
> > XP
> > will have problems with the old hard drive.
> > Thanks
> If you use your old drive as the operating system disk (the one which has
> Windows), then you will need to perform a repair installation. Yes, that
> could easily qualify as a problem.
> If you insert you old drive as an additional disk, Windows will work well.
> In this case, you will need to decide what you want to do with the old
> drive.
>
> I would not install a disk which is more than a couple (or so) years old.
> New ones are so cheap these days.
> Jim
>
>
>

 

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"Ritchie" <Ritchie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>The old drive has xp on it but i would just use it as a secondary drive as it
>has all my pictures, music, programs ect. on it. Would i have to delete the
>version of XP it already has on it?
>
Not neccessary to delete the old XP but it will not be bootable
either, at least not without some additional work.

Good luck

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