By "repair" I mean that instead of choosing the option to reformat Windows,I chose to "Repair the selected Windows XP installation,press R". Believe you me I was skeptical,especially since I did it at a time when I built my first pc,but after 6 months above-normal usage I've never had a blue screen or crash...knock on wood lol. From what I understand doesn't Windows(on a clean install) search for your chipset,optical drives,hard drive,etc,and identify them. My reasoning was that attempting a repair of Windows would allow all that info to be over-written while the main part of Windows would be untouched. Plus some help from Google
Hahaha you should INDEED knock on wood dikdimond !!Anyway if that sort of thing works who am I to shoot that option down?!! I just would not take the chance on an instable system and just do a fresh new WindowsXP install on my new system drive, but that's just me I guess ;-) ...
quote>format the system partition and then install Windows .what do you mean? just run xp disk on start up???????
True that,bakbukkem,I do plan to reformat once I get a new hard drive. Time to clean house,so to speak!
WHY DikDimond?? It's working fine for quite some time now, as you said, so why go through all the hassle of a time consuming Windows install from scratch then?? I'm actually quite intrigued by this. Transferring a hard disk, with windows installed, to a different pc, do a repair, and the bloody thing WORKS!! Sounds great to me. Maybe I'll give it a go myself one of these days, it's obviously worth a try!
It was just a temp fix that has lasted a few months...I work alot,plus I had built my first pc and I didn't want to have to re-tweak all my Windows settings. Lazy? Yeah. Now the holidays are rolling around and I have a little more time on my hands. Plus,I do know that a fresh install of Windows is the best option,and this time I plan to keep an image of my new drive thanks to Acronis,and load that when I want a fresh install.
if it aint broke dont fix it?????? ok i put windows xp on a friends pc when it started i gave it the serial it works fine. but when windows xp starts it asks to register . i put the same serial in and it dont regonize it. it says i have 30 days.what will happen then .i wonder if i need a different serial please help......is there 2 serials one for start up and one for regestering ??????
If that serial is for your copy of Windows,it can be only used once. You can't activate one Windows disc on multiple pc's,unless you have a business IMO.
i dont get it the first time in the begining of install i put the serial it worked fine.windows xp is all there.when it starts it says 30 to register.what the hell do i do now? will it shut down in 30 days
No! Call Microsux service and tell them how you upgraded. An upgrade is acceptable for them, a new machine is not. Same thing happened to me and when I said I did a fresh windows install because of adding hard drive and video card they gave me the key over the phone. General rule to go by: Memory, burner, hard drive = upgrade = key Motherboard, processer = new computer = no registered key (legally)
let me get this correct .when i first installed windows xp and entered the key it worked fine.then every register key(2nd)is different
