OK, I have a bit of a problem:
I have a laptop and it broke. It had a Windows XP Professional (SP2) OEM operating system activated on it. I just got a new custom computer without an operating system, and I'm thinking of transferring the activation of Windows from the laptop's hard drive to the new desktop's HDD. I need to know if calling Microsoft to have it transferred will do it (I've been told not) or, if not, what methods should work. I'm thinking that putting the old hard drive on the new computer will work, or if there is a way to copy all of its content onto the new hard drive without having an operating system on the new drive, I would try that too.
Please help, I'm getting this computer soon.
Thanks,
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I have a laptop and it broke. It had a Windows XP Professional (SP2) OEM operating system activated on it. I just got a new custom computer without an operating system, and I'm thinking of transferring the activation of Windows from the laptop's hard drive to the new desktop's HDD. I need to know if calling Microsoft to have it transferred will do it (I've been told not) or, if not, what methods should work. I'm thinking that putting the old hard drive on the new computer will work, or if there is a way to copy all of its content onto the new hard drive without having an operating system on the new drive, I would try that too.
Please help, I'm getting this computer soon.
Thanks,
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