As posted on a couple of other threads, once the parts arrive I'm rebuilding parts of my useless Packard Bell PC onto a new motherboard (Gigabyte S3) and installing it all into the very useable case of my old Special Reserve PC.
Quick question or two.
The SATA 400Gb drive out of the PB is going into the rebuild but as it's currently running PB's bastardised version of XP will need an Fdisk and reinstall of XP, along with all the lovely F6/floppy nonsense I've read about.
However...the Special Reserve PC has a perfectly serviceable install of XP SP2 on the primary IDE HD. If I connect that to SATA via the converter dongle thingy and set it as the primary HD, will Win XP still work on boot or will the changes be so radically different - i.e. new mobo, cpu, memory, PCI-E graphics etc. that a reformat still required.
And of course the other burning issue is that because so much hardware will have changed in the case, will Windows Activation through a wobbly when I log on to authenticate XP?
Any advice from the Wise Guys or even other fellow Thugs who have attempted this is welcome.
Quick question or two.
The SATA 400Gb drive out of the PB is going into the rebuild but as it's currently running PB's bastardised version of XP will need an Fdisk and reinstall of XP, along with all the lovely F6/floppy nonsense I've read about.
However...the Special Reserve PC has a perfectly serviceable install of XP SP2 on the primary IDE HD. If I connect that to SATA via the converter dongle thingy and set it as the primary HD, will Win XP still work on boot or will the changes be so radically different - i.e. new mobo, cpu, memory, PCI-E graphics etc. that a reformat still required.
And of course the other burning issue is that because so much hardware will have changed in the case, will Windows Activation through a wobbly when I log on to authenticate XP?
Any advice from the Wise Guys or even other fellow Thugs who have attempted this is welcome.
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