I would like to upgrade my operating system in a new basic kit

I love my XP and I want to keep, so I can buy a whole new computer to pieces, then put my current hard drive with my OS in it? If so what steps do I take to do it correctly? I'd just made, advice, ex.

Thank you in advance.

 
On Saturday, November 27, 2010 18:32:46 + 0000, 000blaine000 wrote:
 
 
> I love my XP and I want to keep, so I can buy a whole new computer to pieces, then put my current hard drive with my OS in it? If so what steps do I take to do it correctly? I'd just made, advice, ex.
 
 
Yes, if it is a retail version of Windows, you can do what you want.
but whether the old installation of Windows will work with the new
equipment is in place in the air. Certainly, you need at least to
do a repair installation, and the worst case, you will need to reinstall
Windows itself.
 
But if yours is an OEM of Windows version (for example, if it came)
preinstalled on the computer), you can * not * to do this. An OEM license
links at all times for the first computer, on which it is installed and it
can never be moved to another.
 

Ken Blake (MS-MVP)

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