OS question for building new system

[Puck1987]

I currently have a 3-year-old system with a Gigabyte GA-7DX AMD 761 mobo and AMD T-bird 1.33 CPU. I'm happy with Gigabyte and AMD, so I'm planning to upgrade to a Gigabyte mobo with a KT600 chipset and a 2800XP CPU. Since my current power supply is only 300 watts, I'm going to replace the case with an Antec 380 watt. My current operating system is Win XP Pro upgrade over Win 2000. My question - can I move my current hard drive, OS and all, and install it in the new box, or will I have to reinstall the OS? Will Microsoft interpret the new mobo and cpu as a new computer and make me purchase a new copy? If I move the hard drive (30GB Maxtor 7200 rpm) to the new system, I will have to get a new one for the old box since I'm passing it along to a relative and will install a 98 OS on it. Would it be easier to put the new drive in the new box? This is the last piece of the project I'm still mulling over before I embark, so any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.

Cheri Ruch

 

[BadBigBen]

It is recommended that you do a clean install, less hassle in the long run, believe me... and no, you do not need to buy another licsence for XP, as you are not installing it on two systems, you just need to get it activated for the new one...

Ben

 

[SYAR2003]

Or you could do a repair install when the new mobo is in .

 

[micker377]

I just went through this. Thread 779-774877. Pay special attention to linney's post. I found the cure at:

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.htm

If possible, do an image before starting.

A repair won't work as the new setup won't recognize the hard drive and you will get a "Fatal Error" on new boot.

You will have to call in and re-activate (takes three minutes). You will have three days to re-activate.

 

[SYAR2003]

Change mobo with repair procesure is described here :
I have done it sometimes with success , and sometime it
was not that successful .
One tip is to uninstall mobo spesific devices from devicemanager then restart . In windows dont allow them to
get installed again . Then shutdown and change motherboard .

http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm

 

[jznightmare]

the most advisable thing to do is a clean install of the operating system, transfering the hard disk might produce errors later on.

it is possible to transfer the hard disk to another setup and work fine but what we want to do is to avoid creating incompatibilities and unforeseen errors later on.

 

[Puck1987]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. As much of a headache it may be, I may opt for putting the new hard drive on the new system and move the files rather than moving the hard drive.

Cheri