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| 1114790 | 2010-06-30 08:52:00 | I have a hard drive with XP on it but the rest if the PC died. If I stick the HD into a new pc am I still licensed to use XP? P.S. The XP version is not OEM. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1114791 | 2010-06-30 09:07:00 | Non-OEM copies can be transferred to new computers, as long as it is uninstalled from the old computer (which in this case, it is). You may have to reactivate though. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1114792 | 2010-06-30 09:09:00 | You can transfer the licence from one PC to another only if the licence/OS is a full or upgrade one (and only if you completely removed it from the first machine), not if it is OEM or Volume. Chances are, the computer will crash if you put that drive in another computer (unless it's exactly the same motherboard/hardware as the first one), the drivers/cpu/chipset etc will not be the same. If it does boot up, is a good idea to do a repair install to avoid possible problems later. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1114793 | 2010-06-30 12:12:00 | Yeah you needed to use sysprep I think before you make the image file - then transfer to new PC. It would crash, been that done that. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1114794 | 2010-07-01 08:21:00 | Hope you haven't lost the product key | Greven (91) | ||
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