g.freeman
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alright well, ive got a question.im.. not necessarilly building a pc, more recreating. but im kinda confused. im trying to somewhat swap my mobo and wondering if theres anyway to salvage whats on my hdd so i wont have to get rid of windows xp. heres the info
ive been using an emachine w3400 that i bought from ebay earlier last year that had the oem windows home xp sp2 that all i ever did was add 512 ram and a 6600gt vid card, and ive decided to start a project
so far im siting with this emachine, and atm ive bought a epox 9npa+sli nforce 4 mobo siting in my nzxt nemesis elite case taking space. i did not buy a new powersupply or anything because im going to take from my emachine because its not sitting to bad and put in my nzxt case.
so right now im sitting with a emachine on one side running fine and a case with just a mobo on the other. what i would like to do but worried about is taking the hdd from the emachine and installing it to my new build so i can still have all the same everything basically and then maybe eventually when i have the money cloning it to a larger hdd. but yall know that this wont work as do i because of the drivers for the new mobo wont be there and such etc. but i would really not like to "erase" that hdd for the fact i wont have xp home anymore and i dont have the money to buy a retail version for 200+ dollars for it to just become junk after 2006 for this new... vista crap. so my question (finally) is, can i somehow save my oem xp home from my emachines and somehow get it to my new build and still have it work using my current hdd from the emac?
if u dont understand my problem ask me to clarify because i know this is most likely poorly written
ive been using an emachine w3400 that i bought from ebay earlier last year that had the oem windows home xp sp2 that all i ever did was add 512 ram and a 6600gt vid card, and ive decided to start a project
so far im siting with this emachine, and atm ive bought a epox 9npa+sli nforce 4 mobo siting in my nzxt nemesis elite case taking space. i did not buy a new powersupply or anything because im going to take from my emachine because its not sitting to bad and put in my nzxt case.
so right now im sitting with a emachine on one side running fine and a case with just a mobo on the other. what i would like to do but worried about is taking the hdd from the emachine and installing it to my new build so i can still have all the same everything basically and then maybe eventually when i have the money cloning it to a larger hdd. but yall know that this wont work as do i because of the drivers for the new mobo wont be there and such etc. but i would really not like to "erase" that hdd for the fact i wont have xp home anymore and i dont have the money to buy a retail version for 200+ dollars for it to just become junk after 2006 for this new... vista crap. so my question (finally) is, can i somehow save my oem xp home from my emachines and somehow get it to my new build and still have it work using my current hdd from the emac?
if u dont understand my problem ask me to clarify because i know this is most likely poorly written