Windows xp installation

[sativa]

My wife's hd has died on her office desktop, and until Win7 arrives, we're going to install XP for a couple of months, on a new HD.

I am thinking about temporarily connecting the new HD to my vista machine, installing XP, browser, anti virus etc, but no hardware drivers and then when I go to her office next week connecting the HD into her machine and just adding her specific hardware drivers - will this work? or will the xp installation be unstable?

The reason for not doing it fresh at her office is lack of time etc.

 

[Daegan]

I am thinking about temporarily connecting the new HD to my vista machine, installing XP, browser, anti virus etc, but no hardware drivers and then when I go to her office next week connecting the HD into her machine and just adding her specific hardware drivers - will this work? or will the xp installation be unstable?

XP will install drivers and configure itself accordingly, so no, unless your hardware is very similar it wouldn't be a good idea.

Best solution if you don't want to spend time at her office would be for her unplug everything and bring the base unit home.