this may have already been covered countless times, but . . .

here is what I have and what I want to accomplish -

I have a current machine with XP & programs on an IDE drive. I want to
build a new machine with a new motherboard and new SATA C: drive.
Can I clone the old IDE drive to the new SATA one? Since I can't
install the SATA drive in the old IDE machine, do I build the new
machine and install the old IDE as the C: drive and then clone the IDE
to the SATA drive - then remove the IDE drive and assume that the new
machine will adopt the SATA drive as the C: drive?

Or another way that I would accept would be to do a clean install with
my copy of XP on the new machine with the SATA drive and then reinstall
all of my software and programs again - in this case how do I install XP
on a "second" machine? or how do I convince Microsoft that I will only
be running XP one one machine?

Thank you for your thoughts on this!


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Problem with that is you can clone IDE drives but not SATA drives,at
least in xps XCOPY.Even if you find 3rd party software that could,with
a new board one must do a new installation of xp.Youre best bet is to
run file transfer wizard on old board,set the wizard to old computer.

"nedjinski" wrote:

>
> this may have already been covered countless times, but . . .
>
> here is what I have and what I want to accomplish -
>
> I have a current machine with XP & programs on an IDE drive. I want to
> build a new machine with a new motherboard and new SATA C: drive.
> Can I clone the old IDE drive to the new SATA one? Since I can't
> install the SATA drive in the old IDE machine, do I build the new
> machine and install the old IDE as the C: drive and then clone the IDE
> to the SATA drive - then remove the IDE drive and assume that the new
> machine will adopt the SATA drive as the C: drive?
>
> Or another way that I would accept would be to do a clean install with
> my copy of XP on the new machine with the SATA drive and then reinstall
> all of my software and programs again - in this case how do I install XP
> on a "second" machine? or how do I convince Microsoft that I will only
> be running XP one one machine?
>
> Thank you for your thoughts on this!
>
>
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> nedjinski
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>

The best you could do is a clone followed by a repair install. This may not
work. Clean installs are best when altering the original hardware to that
extent. If your current XP installation is more than 120 days old, no
convincing is required on a clean install. Don't attempt to run both
machines with same product key afterwards. One or the other only.

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"nedjinski" <nedjinski.1yh1ob@no-mx.forum.osnn.net> wrote in message
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>
> this may have already been covered countless times, but . . .
>
> here is what I have and what I want to accomplish -
>
> I have a current machine with XP & programs on an IDE drive. I want to
> build a new machine with a new motherboard and new SATA C: drive.
> Can I clone the old IDE drive to the new SATA one? Since I can't
> install the SATA drive in the old IDE machine, do I build the new
> machine and install the old IDE as the C: drive and then clone the IDE
> to the SATA drive - then remove the IDE drive and assume that the new
> machine will adopt the SATA drive as the C: drive?
>
> Or another way that I would accept would be to do a clean install with
> my copy of XP on the new machine with the SATA drive and then reinstall
> all of my software and programs again - in this case how do I install XP
> on a "second" machine? or how do I convince Microsoft that I will only
> be running XP one one machine?
>
> Thank you for your thoughts on this!
>
>
> --
> nedjinski
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